Past tense

The Italian past tense can be a bit tricky since there are different ways to refer to the past in Italian:

• the passato prossimo (the Italian perfect perfect)
• the imperfetto (the Italian imperfect)
• the passato remoto (the Italian past simple)
• the trapassato remoto (the Italian past perfect)

Also, in Italian, we have regular past tenses and irregular past tenses, which makes things even more complicated.