Preliminary Recommendations

Combination of features

Italian verbs have a maximum of 52 different inflected word-forms derived from different combinations of morphological features for simple morphological units (i.e. excluding compound forms).

In summary, the following combinations of morphological features are applied, depending on Verb-form and, within a Verb-form, on different Moods.

SIMPLE FORMS Finiteness Verb-form/Mood gramm. features

finite ind Tense Person Number

sub Tense Person Number

impr Tense Person Number

cond Tense Person Number

non-finite inf Tense

ger Tense

part Tense Number Gender

Compound forms have the following combinations:

COMPOUND FORMS Finiteness grammatical features

finite Tense Person Number Gender

non-finite Tense Gender Number

Compound forms, because of the presence of the participle, have the feature Gender.