Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The Perfect System is comprised of three tenses that all describe completely finished actions, the present perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect. All of these tenses are formed from the third principle part of a verb. Let's get some general information about this system and learn how to construct the present perfect tense.

Script by Patrizia Farina, Professor of Italian at Western Connecticut State University and Purchase College.

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