Passato Prossimo: How to Choose Essere or Avere Correctly in Italian 

What do you think? Does it make sense? If you have any more questions, let me know! 😍🇮🇹

Thank you for teaching us about the “House of Essere” as a way to keep the choice of Avere vs Essere in Passato Prossimo straight! This makes it much easier. I’m really thankful that you make your grammar videos in English and your Vlogs in Italian. They are the perfect blend of two different approaches to learning this beautiful language. Grazie mille!

I have a test on passato prossimo tomorrow and you are carrying so hard. Grazie a molto!

You really are an excellent teacher! Thanks!

Thank you for this video! I've been struggling with the passato prossimo because I never knew which auxiliary verb to use, and this really explained it to me well. It is the most helpful video on this subject that I've found!

what a wonderful teacher you are! Thank you so much for helping me to understand easily.

I love your videos! Here, grateful from Argentina, learning a lot 🐸 (And, hopefully soon, writing comments in italiano!)

So glad i discovered your channel recently. I have always had an issue with transitive and intransitive verbs so i am going back to basics. So this video is awesome. Grazie

Thank you so much I was struggling in this for long time you made it clear for me 😊

OMG this was very helpful!!! Grazie professore 🙏🏻

omg thank you so much!! this has been frustrating me for so long, I have watched so many videos but this is the first one that actually made me understand it!! :)

This video was so helpful! Thank you, Stefano!

i learnt the tactics behind the use of essere and avere. thanks Stefano

You did amazing Job , really i appreciate your efforts.

Ottimo video, come sempre, Stefano! Questa è una lezione utile e una revisione importante per tutti. Bravo maestro!!

thank you stefano! I appreciate your content!!

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You are an amazing teacher, I am so happy I came across your videos on RU-vid. Grazie mile!

Everything is clear! Just perfect explanation!✨🔥 Really useful! Thanks so much, I really enjoyed)))

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Thank you! I needed this

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Very interesting, thank you Stefano.

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Thanks for this tutorial!

THX so much I have a test and didnt pay attention you are a hero

this video literally saved my life. I also really enjoy your lessons, grazie mille!

You are a good teacher 🙏👍

Thank you so much you explained it better than my teacher

Thank you for the lessons! I study Italian and they are very useful for me.:)

The best explanation ever!!! 💓

Thank you so much!

Great lesson

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thankyou this was really helpful

Thanks!

Grazie, hai mi aiutato molto🌞

Thanks

Ciao Stefano. . .Grazie mille...è stato tutto chiarissimo, è la prima volta che capisco il verbo 'essere' a proffondità😅😅😅👍😁💖

Thanks you

Thank you sir❤

Stefano, Sono Romina di Argentina. I love your podcast and now I've just started watching all your RU-vid videos. This video was really helpful! I always have problems choosing between avere or essere when speaking in past. Grazie per tutti! Ciao! :)

Stefano, your videos are seriously SO AMAZING! They are so helpful, you're so good at explaining and whether you're speaking english or italian doesn't matter because you rock at both! Hands down the best language-teaching channel I've come across on RU-vid🤩 One little tip though: While studying italian tonight I wanted to finally learn when to use essere and avere, which is exactly what this video is about! When I searched youtube for a video about this topic though, I wrote "sono o ho teacher stefano" instead of "essere o avere". Even though I wrote your channel name and searched for it, none of your videos popped up. If I hadn't already seen many of your videos and if I wasn't already subscribed, I wouldn't have found this video by scrolling through your playlists. You definitely deserve recognition and I know lots of people would find your explanation in this video really helpful! Therefore, maybe consider adding keywords like "sono o ho" for this video? I can't be the only one searching that instead of "essere o avere" and I think having those keywords would make your video pop up for more people searching for the topic! Also, I'm slightly confused when and when not to change the last letter of a past participle to make it agree with the subject. Is it only with Essere, or should one do it with all past participles based on whether the subject is male or female and singular or plural? I would really appreciate the feedback and again, maybe adding those keywords could bring more people to your channel? I really hope it does, because you certainly deserve it for the great and useful content both here on RU-vid and with your podcast. Grazie mille per tutto l'aiuto e buonasera!🌟

Grazie mille!!!

Hello, I’m also listening to you on podcast . Great vloging 👍😊

I am American and moved to Switzerland and learned German and French and remember learning this concept of using the verb for "to be" to conjugate this verb tense with verbs of motion and finding it so strange. I think now that I'm on my third language where this is done, I've got the hang of this :P. It seems that nearly all the Swiss national languages have this quirky feature. I wonder if Romansh has this as well.

The How’s (House) of Essere ! Buonissimo!

Perfetto😍

Grazie mille al Maestro Stefano per questo approccio diverso alla padronanza del Passato Prossimo rispetto ad Essere e Abere. Trovo che questo approccio sia più intuitivo e si adatti bene alla spiegazione standard. L'immagine della Casa dell'Essere e infatti l'intero libro di testo sono disponibili gratuitamente in formato PDF scaricabile. Lo trovate cercando su Google il titolo del libro: Nuovo Contatto, Vol. A1.

Gracie Mille mi hair aiutato tanto ❤

Che bello, che non già fai i video in inglese

I wonder why this developed since in Latin these compound tenses are formed with 'esse:' amaturus sum amaturus eram amaratus ero amaratus fui amaratus fueram amaratus fuissem German uses 'haben/sein' in the same way and I wonder if this is not a German grammatical impression on northern Italian dialects from occupation by the Holy Roman Empire.

Awesome

Thanks so much for this! Can you please explain the difference between ho vissuto and sono vissuto? I read in my grammar book that this verb (vivere) can take both verbs but I just can't understand it. Your videos are a tremendous help, thanks!

Wait I like when you talk the lesson in Italian 😀

What is reflexive verb?

OMG! My fifty year old brain needs to rewatch this one a few times. Man, I wish I took Spanish or Italian in High School instead of German. Would probably make this much easier 🤦🏻

Generally: When using essere, those verbs are intransitive? And when using avere, those verbs are transitive?

Ciao Stéfano, vorrei sapere se tutti questi argomenti importanti riguardanti i verbi essere e avere imperfetto ecc. verbi, è davvero difficile per me impararli, ne ho visto uno sul passato prossimo ma non era in italiano non riuscivo ad ascoltarlo perché è in inglese!Una domanda, ripeti i temi anche in italiano??? Sarebbe fantastico Vi lascio un affettuoso saluto.

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According to your explanation, you said that verbs ending with IRE shall be replaced by ITO, but why here the verb Venire it is said Venuto ?

Mi ha dato fastidio che a 6:51, non sia organizzato come: 1. Nascita 2. Crescere 3. Diventare 4. Morire Soltanto scherzo 😂 Comunque però, fantastica puntata e spiegazione come sempre, professore Tante grazie ✌️

EXCELLENT!! Is it OK to say "Pedro è nato, cresciuto e morto a Roma"? or we should rather say "Pedro è nato, è cresciuto e è morto a Roma?" Grazie!

when with spanish audio?

considering I'm a woman, should I say "Mi sono fatto la doccia" or "Mi sono fattA la doccia"?????

Am an indian i can't understand the above question please help me

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Capisco che voui mostrare che parli bene l'inglese, ma preferisco alcostarti quando parli italiano.

Judging from the comments, I think I’m the only one lost here 😂

I liked it a lot but I prefer a thousand times when you speak in Italian :(

why don't speak anymore English translate because when you teachers with English and Italian is more easy for our to speak Italian very very but you didn't continue to teach us with with Italian long English please please make it

Che peccato Stéfano, stavamo imparando l'italiano con un italiano in lingua italiana, non capisco perché sei cambiato per spiegarlo in inglese, il bisogno era ed è italiano, adio caro...