18.06.24: 3rd conjugation verbs

Match the Latin and English verbs. It’s easy to misread these because many of them have similar endings. Although the 3rd conjugation has been covered in detail in earlier posts, there is also a summary of the present, imperfect and future tense endings together with the word cloud.

The perfect tense of Latin verbs very often cannot be predicted. The principal parts of this verb that have been looked at so far are:

scribō, scrībere, scrīps¦ī; it is the third part that gives you the stem of the perfect tense.

1. I write / am writing
2. He used to write
3. You (pl.) did write
4. Write! (sg.)
5. He wrote / has written
6. You (pl.) were writing
7. I shall write
8. I was writing
9. You (sg.) will write
10. They do write
11. To write
12. Write! (pl.)
13. They will write
14. You (pl.) are writing
15. You (sg.) wrote / have written