Lesson 4: Structure of Passato Remoto in italian

The remote past tense (passato remoto) is a simple tense and is formed by one word. In general, it refers to the historical past or to events that have happened in the distant past relative to the speaker.

Follow this format to form the passato remoto of regular verbs:

For -are verbs, drop the infinitiveending and add one of these personal endings to the root: -ai, -asti, -ò, -ammo, -aste, -arono.

For -ere verbs, drop the infinitive ending and add these personal endings to the root: -ei, -esti, -é, -emmo, -este, -erono. Note that many regular -ere verbs have an alternative form in the first person singular, third person singular, and third person plural forms.