Tenses in Italian Usage
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Eat & Ate
- Eat is generally present tense.
- Ate is past tense.
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Have Had & Had Eaten
- "Have you had your dinner?" is the correct sentence.
- "Have had" is in present perfect tense.
- The difference is that "had eaten" is past; "have eaten" means you ate recently.
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Grammatically Correct Sentences
- Both "I have eaten food" and "I had eaten food" are grammatically correct.
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Has & Have
- She has been strict in this matter.
- My mom has been strict in this matter.
- You use "have" when referring to many people/things.