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Verb drills

Fill in a verb's whole table, one tense at a time, to learn its forms side by side.

A drill is one verb in one tense: you type every person’s form, top to bottom, the way you’d learn a conjugation table. Open Path → Drills, or Drill this verb on any verb’s page.

Drills: tense tabs, the mi piace verbs, and your verbs, each with a square per form: right, missed or not tried.
  1. Choose the tense. The list and its scores follow it.
  2. Verbs like piacere (to like), where the thing does the pleasing: mi piace for one thing, mi piacciono for several. Their drills ask for both.
  3. Show the verbs you’ve started, the irregular ones, or all of them.
  4. Find a verb by typing it.
  5. Each verb’s table for this tense, one square per form, top to bottom: teal if you got it right the last time you answered it, red if you missed it, sand if you haven’t tried it yet.

Fill in the table

A drill of fare in the present: a row for each person, with two forms checked.
  1. The tenses. Switch any time.
  2. Each row is a person, with the English to help: io is "I do".
  3. Accented letters, to tap into the box you’re on.
  4. Press Check (or Enter) to check the row you’re on and move to the next.

Each row turns green when it’s right or red with the answer when it isn’t, so you can see the pattern as you go. There’s no word bank in drills, so every right answer counts toward knowing the word, just like a review with the bank hidden.

Flip through a table

Switch Drill it to Flip through to see the table face down instead: tap any row’s Show to see that form, Show all for the whole table, and the speaker to hear it (Play the table plays every form in turn). Nothing is graded or saved. Switch back to Drill it, or press it under the table, when you’re ready to type them.

Spanish drills cover the present, preterite, imperfect and future; Italian drills the present, imperfect, future and passato prossimo.

On the free plan

Free accounts can drill the verbs in the first three batches. Every verb is on the full plan.

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