1. Perfect Active Participles
Stage 22
Perfect Active Participles

2. Perfect Active Participles
Some verbs in Latin cannot have PPP (perfect passive participles). In stead they have Perfect Active Participles.

3. Deponent Verbs
Verbs that have PAPs are deponent verbs because they “Put aside” the normal forms.

4. Memorize the List
To learn PAPs, you simply learn the list and learn the translation formula.

5. Translation formula is
Having ________ed.
Having is active (no been)
“____ed” shows it happened in the past (perfect)

6. CLAP-G Conspicatus-a-um (having caught sight of)
Locutus-a-um (having spoken)
Adeptus-a-um (having received)
Precatus-a-um(having prayed)
--gressus-a-um compounds (having stepped)

7. Modestus, multa verba locutus, exit.
Practice
Modestus, multa verba locutus, exit.
Modestus, having spoken many words, left.

8. Ancilla, aquam adepta, ad villam redit.
The slave girl, having obtained the water, returned to the house.

9. Senex, ad deam precatus, laetus erat.
The old man, having prayed to the goddess was happy.

10. Modestus, having caught sight of the girl, walked to the forum.
Modestus, puellam conspicatus, ad forum ambulavit/ambulabat.

11. Flavia, having prayed in the atrium, was happy.
Flavia, in atrio precata, laeta erat.

12. Make a Small Chart Write PERFECT ACTIVE PARTICIPLES at the top.
Write C on the left side of your paper. L A P G
Write out the participle nominative forms
Illustrate the meaning