AUX: auxiliary verb
Definition
Italian auxiliary verbs can be divided into:
- copulas
- stare in “sto arrivando”
- tense auxiliaries, used to form compound tenses represented by avere “to have” and essere “to be”;
- passive auxiliaries, used to form passive verb forms represented by essere “to be” and venire lit. “to come”.
Following the UD guidelines, Italian modal verbs are handled as modal auxiliaries (e.g. potere “can”, dovere “must”).
Corresponding language-specific part-of-speech tags
VA: Auxiliary verb, copula
VM: Modal verb
Examples
- Tense auxiliaries: ha fatto “he has done”, è arrivato “he has arrived”, sarà finito “it will be finished”
- Passive auxiliaries: fu distrutto “it was destroyed”, è stato comprato “it has been bought”
- Modal auxiliaries: dovrebbe fare “he should do”, può avere successo “he can have success”
- Copulas: è una ragazza intelligente “she is a smart girl”
AUX in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cy] [da] [el] [en] [es] [et] [fi] [fro] [fr] [ga] [grc] [gub] [hu] [hy] [it] [ja] [ka] [kk] [kpv] [ky] [myv] [no] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [uk] [u] [urj] [yue] [zh]