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Microsoft vuole comprare Yahoo!
Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo!
Literally: 'Microsoft wants to-buy Yahoo!'

I am sure not many are not aware by now that Microsoft has placed a bid to buy Yahoo! for $44.6bn (£22.4bn).

Both Yahoo! and Google have announced this week enhanced versions of their web-based email services, and Microsoft could be trying to protect the very lucrative Outlook from the competition.

Google e Yahoo! vogliono competere con Outlook
Google and Yahoo! want to compete with Outlook
Literally: 'Google and Yahoo! want to-compete with Outlook'.

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Volere (to want) is a very common and very irregular verb. Today you can see the difference between 'he/she/it wants' (vuole) and 'they want' (vogliono).

The infinitive (the 'to + …' form) of all verbs in Italian ends in -re. No special word at the beginning (like the English 'to') needed. This is the form you will find listed in dictionaries.

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