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Imperfects and Perfects

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.

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Imperfects and Perfects

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  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?

  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.

  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?

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