Lesson 12: Perfect Tense Verbs Latin I Feb. 2-11, 2015
Perfect Tense This week we’re learning perfect tense: past action completed
Perfect Tense There are 3 ways to translate perfect tense: I verbed, you verbed, he/she/it verbed I have verbed, you have verbed, he/she/it has verbed I did verb, you did verb, he/she/it did verb
And hasn’t happened since, And that’s what’s perfect It happened in the past, And hasn’t happened since, And that’s what’s perfect About perfect tense!
The Perfect Stem! Now it’s time to start using the 3rd principal part of those verbs in your vocab list! STEM!
All About Verbs Each verb has 4 principal parts amo amare amavi amatus First Person Singular Present Active “I love” Present active Infinitive “to love” First Person Singular Perfect Active “I have loved” Perfect Passive Participle “having been loved”
Finding the Perfect Stem Find the third principal part of the verb. amo amare amavi amatus The perfect stem is the third principal part – i. amavi - i = amav-
Finding the Perfect Stem Find the third principal part of the verb. doceo docēre docui doctus The perfect stem is the third principal part – i. docui - i = docu-
Perfect Stem Practice porto, portare, portavi, portatus terreo, terrēre, terrui, territus maneo, manēre, mansi, mansurus sum, esse, fui, futurus PORTAV- TERRU- MANS- FU-
The perfect tense = Perfect Stem + Perfect Endings Perfect Tense Endings The perfect tense = Perfect Stem + Perfect Endings Plural Singular I verbed I have verbed I did verb First Person -i -imus we… You verbed, have verbed, did verb -isti you (pl.)… Second Person -istis he, she, it verbed, has verbed, did verb Third Person -it -erunt they…
Perfect Tense Active amav imus amav i amav istis amav isti erunt amav I loved I have loved I did love First Person We loved We have loved We did love amav imus amav i You loved You have loved You did love You loved You have loved You did love Second Person amav istis amav isti erunt They loved They have loved They did love He loved He has loved He did love Third Person amav amav it
porto, portare, portavi, portatus: carry portavi portavimus portavisti portavistis portavit portaverunt
doceo, docēre, docui, doctus: teach docui docuimus docuisti docuistis docuit docuerunt
Exercise B: Write ON YOUR OWN PAPER! Workbook page 44 Exercise B: Write ON YOUR OWN PAPER! Exercise B: Write the LATIN word and the ENGLISH meaning (not just the number/letter) Ex: 1. amavi: I loved