Wednesday, May 29, 2024

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






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