Neapolitan has four moods: indicative, subjunctive, imperative, and conditional. Each has an active and passive form. There are three modes: infinitive, gerund, and participle. Unlike Italian, Neapolitan only has one auxiliary verb (avere) whereas Italian uses essere for intransitive and reflexive verbs. The following picture gives a typical example of the syntactic structure of a simple past tense sentence in Neapolitan compared to Italian:
