Latin for Beginners eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 433 pages of information about Latin for Beginners.

Latin for Beginners eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 433 pages of information about Latin for Beginners.

  IMPERFECT INDICATIVE (TENSE SIGN -ba:-)

SINGULAR
ama:’bar,                    mone:’bar,                       -r
I was being loved          I was being advised
ama:ba:’ris or ama:ba:’re,   mone:ba:’ris or mone:ba:’re      -ris
you were being loved       you were being advised         or -re
ama:ba:’tur,                 mone:ba:’tur,                    -tur
he was being loved         he was being advised
PLURAL
ama:ba:’mur,                 mone:ba:’mur,                    -mur
we were being loved        we were being advised
ama:ba:’mini:,               mone:ba:’mini:,                  -mini: 
you were being loved       you were being advised
ama:ban’tur,                 mone:ban’tur,                    -ntur
they were being loved      they were being advised

  FUTURE (TENSE SIGN -bi-)

SINGULAR
ama:’bor,                    mone:’bor,                       -r
I shall be loved           I shall be advised
ama:’beris, or ama:’bere   mone:’beris or mone:’bere,     -ris
you will be loved          you will be advised            or -re
ama:’bitur,                  mone:’bitur,                     -tur
he will be loved           he will be advised
PLURAL
ama:’bimur,                  mone:’bimur,                     -mur
we shall be loved          we shall be advised
ama:bi’mini:,                mone:bi’mini:,                   -mini: 
you will be loved          you will be advised
ama:bun’tur,                 mone:bun’tur,                    -ntur
they will be loved         they will be advised

  1.  The tense sign and the personal endings are added as in the active.

  2.  In the future the tense sign -bi- appears as -bo- in the first
  person, -be- in the second, singular number, and as -bu- in the
  third person plural.

  3.  Inflect laudo\, neco\, porto\, moveo\, deleo\, iubeo\, in the
  present, imperfect, and future indicative, active and passive.

166. Intransitive verbs, such as maturo\, _I hasten_; habito\, I dwell, do not have a passive voice with a personal subject.

167. EXERCISES

I. 1.  Laudaris or laudare, laudas, datur, dat. 2.  Dabitur, dabit, videmini, videtis. 3.  Vocabat, vocabatur, delebitis, delebimini. 4.  Parabatur, parabat, curas, curaris or curare. 5.  Portabantur, portabant, videbimur, videbimus. 6.  Iuberis or iubere, iubes, laudabaris or laudabare, laudabas. 7.  Moveberis or movebere, movebis, dabantur, dabant. 8.  Delentur, delent, parabamur, parabamus.

II. 1.  We prepare, we are prepared, I shall be called, I shall call, you were carrying, you were being carried. 2.  I see, I am seen, it was being announced, he was announcing, they will order, they will be ordered. 3.  You will be killed, you will kill, you move, you are moved, we are praising, we are being praised. 4.  I am called, I call, you will have, you are cared for. 5.  They are seen, they see, we were teaching, we were being taught, they will move, they will be moved.

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