1. Imperfects and Perfects

2. 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.

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

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

8. 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

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

10. 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

11. How do we conjugate it?