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Dec 30, 2013 16:35:07 GMT -5
Post by Shad on Dec 30, 2013 16:35:07 GMT -5
Suddenly, I now must memorize the entire indiactive active plurperfect, perfect, future II, along with the passive active perfect, imperfect, and future. And all the principle parts for all four conjugations.
//strangled noises//
latin can be torturous
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Dec 30, 2013 18:05:36 GMT -5
Post by marina on Dec 30, 2013 18:05:36 GMT -5
what
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Dec 31, 2013 12:14:04 GMT -5
Post by Shad on Dec 31, 2013 12:14:04 GMT -5
exactly much confused, so nonplus
They're all endings you use for verbs. You know how when you were in the class, you used -o, -s, -t, -mus, -tis, -nt? Well that was just the present tense (I praise, or I am praising, for instance). Just like in English, Latin verbs have different tenses. There's imperfect (past tense) (-bam, -bas, -bant, -bamus, -batis, -bant) and future (bo, bis, bit, bimus, bitis, bunt). I've known those for awhile. But now we're getting into complicated stuff. The pluperfect is used when you've got "had + past-tense verb". (i.e. dederam = I had given) But the passive active indicates "was being + verb". (laudabatur = I was being praised)
so now I've got 26 endings to memorize, as well a remember which tense they belong in and what they mean o.e
do you see my problem
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