Breakdown of Ieri ho salvato l'ambiente e ho pulito la foresta.
e
and
avere
to have
pulire
to clean
ieri
yesterday
l'ambiente
the environment
la foresta
the forest
salvare
to save
Questions & Answers about Ieri ho salvato l'ambiente e ho pulito la foresta.
This lesson is about the future tense, but this sentence uses the past tense (ho pulito). How would I change "I cleaned" to "I will clean"?
To say "I will clean", you use the future tense of the regular -ire verb pulire. You take the infinitive, drop the final -e, and add the "I" ending -ò, making it pulirò.
Why do we use ho before salvato and pulito?
In Italian, the standard past tense (passato prossimo) requires two words: a helper verb (in this case avere, conjugated as ho for "I") and the past participle (salvato or pulito). You can't just say ieri salvato; you must say ieri ho salvato (literally "yesterday I have saved").
Why is the article for environment written as l' in l'ambiente?
Pulire is an -isc- verb in the present tense (like io pulisco). Does that affect its past tense form pulito?
Fortunately, no! The -isc- pattern only happens in the present tense (and the imperative). For the past tense, pulire acts like a completely regular -ire verb, simply dropping the -ire and adding -ito to become pulito.
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