Indicative in Russian and Italian: features, correspondences and differences

this article examines the indicative mood of Russian and Italian, highlighting key features, correspondences and differences between the two languages. Russian and Italian belong to different language groups (Slavic and Romance, respectively), which determines a number of significant structural differences. Particular attention is paid to translation correspondences demonstrating how different grammatical structures in both languages convey equivalent meanings. The article analyzes how different tense-aspectual forms of the verb encode relative time and temporal relations. It also considers the role of aspect in Russian and the syntactic flexibility of the indicative mood in Italian. The results obtained contribute to a deeper understanding of the features of each language within the framework of comparative analysis. The purpose of the study is to consider the features of the formation, use and functioning of the indicative in Russian and Italian. The issues of aspect characteristics, the system of tenses and their meanings, and translation correspondences are covered. As a result of the comparative analysis, structural, morphological, and functional features of the indicative in the studied languages were identified, which contributes to comparative linguistics, enriches the practice of translation studies and linguodidactics, thereby demonstrating the applied nature of the work.

indicative mood, Russian, Italian, relative time, temporal relations, verb aspect, translation correspondences, grammatical structures, comparative analysis of languages