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The Perfect Tense

The Perfect Tense. 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”. The perfect tense is expressed in Latin by a set of special endings!. ī istī it.

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The Perfect Tense

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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. ī istī it imus istis ērunt Perfect tense endings Singular Plural

  5. These endings are added to the 3rd principal part. The really nice part? The endings are the same for every conjugation!

  6. Let’s use the following verbs:parōdoceōducōaudiōparāredocereducereaudīreparāvīdocuīduxīaudīvīprepare teach lead hearNOTE THAT THE 3RD PRINCIPAL PART ALWAYS ENDS IN ī

  7. Take parāvī. Drop the final i. Add the perfect endings to the perfect stem:parāv +…

  8. parāvī (I prepared) parāvistī parāvit parāvimus parāvistis parāvērunt The first conjugation:

  9. docuī (I taught) docuistī docuit docuimus docuistis docuērunt The second conjugation

  10. duxī (I led) duxistī duxit duximus duxistis duxērunt The third conjugation

  11. audīvī (I heard) audīvistī audīvit audīvimus audīvistis audīvērunt The fourth conjugation

  12. finis

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