1. Lesson 19 Part 3 3rd conjugation verbs: perfect tense
April 8-11, 2013

2. Let’s Review: Conjugations!
1st conjugation verbs: -O, -ARE
2nd conjugation verbs: -EO, -ĒRE
3rd conjugation verbs: -O, -ERE
3rd –io conjugation verbs: -IO, ERE
4th conjugation verbs: -IO, -IRE

3. Let’s Review: 3rd Conjugation!
3rd conjugation verbs have –O, -ERE in their dictionary entry.
pono, ponere, posui, positus
mitto, mittere, misi, missus 3

4. Let’s Review: Present Tense 3rd Conjugation Verbs
3rd conjugation verbs have a little “trick” to make their present tense.
pono, ponere, posui, positus
Instead of dropping just the –RE to find the stem, go ahead and drop the –ERE instead!
ponere –
-ere =
pon-

5. pono, ponere: put, place pon o pon imus pon is pon itis pon it pon unt
We’ve replaced
the –e- before
the –re
with other
vowels,
-i and –u.
PRESENT TENSE
pon o
pon
imus
pon is
pon
itis
pon it
pon
unt

6. pono, ponere: put, place pone! put! ponite! put!
Singular imperative:
Drop the –re.
Plural imperative:
Drop the –re, change
-e- to –i-, then add
-te.
pone! put!
ponite! put!

7. Perfect Tense You’ve already learned this back in Lesson 12!
It happened in the past, and hasn’t happened since…and that’s what’s PERFECT about PERFECT tense!
verbed
have/has verbed
did verb

8. Perfect Tense 3rd Conjugation Verbs
Perfect tense is made the same way for all verbs, including 3rd conjugation!
pono, ponere, posui, positus
To find the stem, drop the –i from the 3rd principal part.
posu-
posui – -i =

9. -i -imus -isti -istis -it -erunt
Perfect Tense Endings
Singular Plural 1st person 2nd person 3rd person -i
-imus
I verbed…
we verbed…
-isti
-istis
you verbed…
y’all verbed…
-it
-erunt
he/she/
it verbed…
they verbed…

10. pono, ponere, posui, positus: put, place
imus
posu
isti
posu
istis
posu it
posu
erunt

11. Compare PRESENT vs. PERFECT
pono, ponere, posui, positus
pono ponimus posui posuimus
ponis ponitis posuisti posuistis
ponit ponunt posuit posuerunt

12. Time To Practice On Your Lesson 19 paper…
Conjugate “mitto, mittere, misi, missus: send” in both the PRESENT and PERFECT tenses
Conjugate “cedo, cedere, cessi, cessurus: yield” in both the PRESENT and PERFECT tenses.
-o -imus -i -imus
-is -itis -isti -istis
-it unt -it -erunt