Grammar - Week 30 Flashcards
The sign of the 3rd conjugation
All verbs whose present infinitive active end in -ere (with the first e short) belong to the 3rd conjugation.
Personal endings of verbs
The personal endings of all Latin verbs are:
-ō or -m, -s, -t, -mus, -tis, -nt
Three forms of the perfect indicative active in English
The perfect indicative active is expressed in English in three forms.:
1.) I praised. 2.) I did praise. 3.) I have praised.
Three characteristics of verbs
In both English and Latin, verbs change their form to express person, number, and tense. (There are actually more than three but we will study only three.)
Uniqueness of imperfect and future active and indicative
To find the endings of the imperfect and future indicative of the 4th conjugation, the 4th conjugation puts in -i before the endings of the 3rd
Third person direct reflexives
When a third person pronoun refers back to the subject of its own clause, a form of suī, rather than is, ea, id must be used.
Three present tense forms in English
The three present tense forms in English are: 1. You praise. 2. You are praising. 3. You do praise.
Ablative of Means
The ablative without a preposition is used to express a non-living agent or the means or instrument by which something is done.
Principal Parts
The Principal parts are the four main forms on whose stems all the other forms of the verb are built.
Ablative of Agent
When an action is done by a living agent, it is expressed in Latin by using the preposition ā/ab.
The sign of the 2nd conjugation
All verbs whose present infinitive active ends in -ēre belong to the 2nd conjugation.
Uniqueness of future indiciative active of the 3rd conjugation
The future indicative active of the 3rd conjugation is different from the 1st and 2nd declensions. While the personal endings are the same, there is no tense sign, and the vowel of the ending changes.
Passive voice
A verb is in the passive voice when the subject is the person or thing to which the action is done.
Three ways to ask questions in Latin
Interrogative adverbs, pronouns, and particles are three ways questions can be asked in Latin.
Tense sign for Imperfect Tense
The tense ba is the sign of the imperfect tense.
