Sunday, September 15, 2024

27.10.24: Level 2; future perfect tense [5]: practice [3]

Complete the translations with the Latin verbs listed below. Note that the English translations of the Latin future perfect in the first part of each sentence are deliberately varied. The second part of the sentence is always the future tense.

Before you have a go at this exercise – a type that is common in some Latin textbooks – pause. There is a thought process involved in these. The exercise is looking for two things:

[i] future perfect tense verbs

[ii] future tense verbs

Think analytically …

[1] Which of them end in the future tense of sum, esse? Those are the future perfect tense verbs. They have a “marker” -er- e.g. -erō, -eris etc. Throw them into one mental or written “box”

sēderō

sēderis

cēperō

cēperis

dūxerint

etc.                                                                                                           

[2] Then look at the personal endings which will tell you will have performed that action

sēderō │ I shall have …

cēperis │ you (sg.) will have …

necāverit  he will have …

portāverimus  we will have …

portāveritis  you (pl.) will have …

dūxerint  they will have …

[3] Do the first part of each sentence using the information you’ve worked out in [1] and [2] above

[4] the other verbs left are in the future tense

necābit

vidēbimus

accidet

etc.

[5] Again, look at the personal endings:

interficiēs │ you (sg.) will …

portābimus │ we will …

etc.

[1] Cum nōn iterum [i] __________ [future perfect], │ quid mihi [ii] __________ [future]?

When [i] I don’t sit again [= Lit: When I will not have sat again], │ what [ii] will happen to me?

[2] Cum nōn iterum __________, │ gladius __________.

When you don’t sit again, │ you will seize a sword.

[3] Cum gladium __________, │ quid mihi accidet?

Once I’ve seized the sword, │ what will happen to me?

[4] Cum gladium __________, │ magistrum __________.

When you seize the sword, │ you’ll kill the teacher.

[5] Cum magistrum __________, │ quid mihi accidet?

When I’ve killed the teacher, │ what will happen to me?

[6] Cum magistrum __________, │ vigilēs tē ad carcerem __________.

Once you kill the teacher, │ the guards will take you to prison.

[7] Cum vigilēs mē ad carcerem __________, │ quid mihi accidet?

Once the guards have taken me to prison, │ what will happen to me?

[8] Cum vigilēs tē ad carcerem __________, │ carnifex tē __________.

When the guards take you to prison, │ the executioner will kill you.

[9] Cum carnifex mē __________, │ quid mihi accidet?

When the executioner has killed me, │ what will happen to me?

[10] Cum carnifex tē __________, │ tē ad sepulcrum __________.

When the executioner kills you, │ we’ll carry you to the tomb.

[11] Cum mē ad sepulcrum __________, │ quid mihi accidet?

When you’ve carried me to the tomb, │ what will happen to me?

[12] Cum tē ad sepulcrum __________, │ cadāver in sepulcrum __________.

Once we’ve carried you to the tomb, │ we’ll put the body into the tomb.

[13] Cum mē in sepulcrum __________, │ quid mihi accidet?

When you’ve put me into the tomb, │  what will happen to me?

[14] Cum tē in sepulcrum __________, │ nōn iterum tē __________.

When we put you into the tomb, we won’t see you again.

accidet; capiēs; cēperis; cēperō; dūcent; dūxerint; dūxerint; interfēceris; interfēcerō; interficiēs; necābit; necāverit; necāverit; pōnēmus; portābimus; portāverimus; portāveritis; posuerimus; posueritis; sēderis; sēderō; vidēbimus


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