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Mastering the Perfect Tense in Latin Grammar

Learn to express completed past actions clearly with the unique endings of the perfect tense in Latin. Understand how to use verbs from all conjugations effectively and translate accurately with "has," "have," or "did."

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Mastering the Perfect Tense in Latin Grammar

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  1. The Perfect Tense

  2. The perfect tense: • Describes action that was completed in the past • Describes action done at a specific time in the past • Is often translated with the helping verbs “has” “have” or “did”

  3. The perfect tense is expressed in Latin by a set of special endings!

  4. i isti it imus istis erunt Perfect tense endings

  5. These endings are used with verbs of all four conjugations

  6. paravi paravisti paravit paravimus paravistis paraverunt The first conjugation:

  7. docui docuisti docuit docuimus docuisti docuerunt The second conjugation

  8. duxi duxisti duxit duximus duxistis duxerunt The third conjugation

  9. audivi audivisti audivit audivimus audivistis audiverunt The fourth conjugation

  10. finis

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