Imperfects and Perfects

Both are past verb tenses Action of sentence took place before now Imperfect took place over time or more than once Perfect happened once and was done Example: Imperfect: I woke up every day last week. Perfect: I woke up this morning.

Ways to Translate the Imperfect Verbed Was/were verbing Used to verb Kept on verbing

Imperfect of Sum Like usual, sum is a little weird. What didn’t change? Sing (Lat) Sing(Eng) Plu(Lat) Plu(Eng) 1st Eram I was Eramus We were 2nd Eras You were Eratis Y’all were 3rd erat He/she/it was Erant They were

Imperfect of Regular Verbs Start with 2nd principal part – the infinitive, the one that ends with –re Drop the –re Add a –ba- Add m, s, t, mus, tis, nt

Example Curro, currere Currere -> curre -> curreba -> One trick: 4th conjugation adds an e before the b. So venire -> veniebam, not venibam. Sing Plu 1st Currebam Currebamus 2nd Currebas Currebatis 3rd Currebat Currebant

Imperfect Practice Conjugate these in the imperfect: Habeo, habēre Pulso, pulsare Scribo, scribere Audio, audire Sum, esse (remember - it’s weird)

Habebam, bas, bat, bamus, batis, bant Pulsabam, bas, bat, bamus, batis, bant Scribebam, bas, bat, bamus, batis, bant Audiebam, bas, bat, bamus, batis, bant Eram, eras, erat, eramus, eratis, erant

Tomorrow… We’ll talk about conjugating the perfect tense. For now, just translate the ones with v’s as “verbed”

Perfect Tense One and done or over time? Translations? Verbed, have/has verbed What letter did we look for? Actually a lot of them to look for V, x, u, s, and more

How do we conjugate it?