Diagnostic Features Flashcards
Perfect Tense Diagnostic Feature
Third Principle Part + Personal Endings
Pluperfect Tense Diagnostic Feature
Third Principle Part + Eram
Future Perfect Tense Diagnostic Feature
Third Principle Part + Ero (No BU though)
The Perfect passive, Pluperfect passive, and Future Perfect passive all use…
The 4pp with a form of sum
4pp is the fourth principle part of a verb (laudo, laudare, laudavi, laudatum)
4pp of a verb is the perfect passive participle, so it will inflect to show the gender and number of the subject using the first and second declension endings
Id factum est (It has been done)
Ea visa est (she has been seen)
Perfect Diagnostic Feature
4pp + sum
Laudatus sum (I have been praised)
Laudati sunt (They have been praised)
Pluperfect Diagnostic Feature
4pp + eram
Laudatus eram (I had been praised)
Laudati erant (They had been praised)
Future Perfect Diagnostic Feature
4pp + ero
Laudatus ero (I will have been praised)
Laudati erunt (They will have been praised)