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Conjugation of piovere

  • Meaning to rain
  • Level A1
  • Pattern irregular
  • Auxiliary essere

What is special about this verb

  • Strong passato remoto: its own stem in the first and third person singular and the third person plural (piovve); the other forms are regular. → Past historic (passato remoto)
  • Forms the compound tenses with essere; the participle agrees with the subject: è piovuto. → The passato prossimo with essere
  • Used almost only in the third person: piove.

Bold and underlined: the ending. ◆ marks a form that breaks the rule.

Indicative

Imperfettoongoing or habitual past

io
tu
lui/​leipioveva
noi
voi
loro

More on this: Imperfect (imperfetto)

Conditional

Subjunctive

Congiuntivo presentepresent subjunctive

io
tu
lui/​leipiova
noi
voi
loro

More on this: Subjunctive: the forms

Non-finite forms

Example sentences from the course

Every sentence comes from this course’s word lists or grammar topics. The verb form is highlighted, and the line below says which tense and person it is.

  • Piove di nuovo.It is raining again.

    Piove — Presente · lui/lei

  • Ha piovuto tutta la notte.It rained all night.

    piovuto — participio

  • Il giorno dopo pioveva ancora.The next day it was still raining.

    pioveva — Imperfetto · lui/lei

  • È probabile che piova stasera.It is likely to rain this evening.

    piova — Congiuntivo presente · lui/lei

  • Nel frattempo ha smesso di piovere.In the meantime it has stopped raining.

    piovere — infinito

  • Piovve per tre giorni di seguito.It rained for three days in a row.

    Piovve — Passato remoto · lui/lei

A common trap

Wrong Benché piove, esco lo stesso.

Right Benché piova, esco lo stesso.

English has one « although » and picks no mood, so the two Italian words look interchangeable and are not. Anche se takes the indicative and benché takes the congiuntivo, and mixing them produces a sentence that is half built. There is no rule of meaning behind it: the word chosen decides the mood, and the safe one in speech is anche se.

Conjunctions: perché, quando

Quick practice

5 gaps, first from the example sentences above, then from the table. Every answer counts towards your reviews.

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The forms are calculated from the rules of the language — twice, in two independent ways — and checked against every hand-written form in this course. The example sentences are the course’s own.