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Latin Grammar

Latin Grammar. Perfect Participles Deponent (Grammar for 3B, p. 158) (Perfect Deponent Participles) (Deponent Perfect Participles). What is a participle?. A participle is an adjective made from a verb. English can make two sorts of participles from most verbs .

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Latin Grammar

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  1. Latin Grammar Perfect Participles Deponent (Grammar for 3B, p. 158) (Perfect Deponent Participles) (Deponent Perfect Participles)

  2. What is a participle? • A participle is an adjective made from a verb. • English can make two sorts of participles from most verbs. • From the English verb breakwe get the participles breaking and broken. The broken window. My breaking heart.

  3. Latin Particples • Latin verbs have several participles. • We’re about to meet our first: the perfect deponent participle.

  4. Latin Participles • If you remove the sum from the last principal part of a deponent verb, the result is a deponent perfect participle. minor, minārī, minātus sum  minātus, -a, -um ingredior, ingredī, ingressussum  ingressus, -a, -um • These words are adjectives and they decline just like multus, -a, -um.

  5. Latin Participles • How do we translate these perfect deponent participles? having Xed mīnātus, -a, -um = having threatened ingressus, -a, -um = having entered These are perfect participles. In Latin, that means that their actions have to be perfect, that is, complete before the time of a clause’s main verb.

  6. A Note on a Latin Obsession • Latin is obsessed with distinguishing between actions that are complete (perfect) or incomplete with respect to the present moment or with respect to other verbs. • English does not share this obsession.

  7. Perfect Deponent Participles Marcus, in aedīsingressus, fīliumcastigāuit. Marcus, having entered into the house, castigated his son. We use the having Xedtranslation to make it clear that the action of the participle in Latin is PERFECT, that is, COMPLETE, with respect to the main verb castigāuit.

  8. Perfect Deponent Participles Marcus, in aedīsingressus, fīliumcastigāuit. However, the following translation is also a good English translation. Marcus, entering into the house, castigated his son. For the time being, I prefer you to translate these participles as having Xed.

  9. A Side-Note • By the way, this Latin obsession with whether actions are complete (perfect) or incomplete explains why the perfect of deponent verbs uses the present tense of sum. ingressus sum • The action of ingressusmust be complete (perfect) with respect to the conjugated verb sum. So that means that it must be a perfect action.

  10. Perfect Deponent Participles Iulia, fīliumcōnspicāta, in aedīsingressa est. Julia, having spotted her son, entered into the house. (OR Julia, spotting her son, entered into the house.)

  11. Caution ingressus sum ≠ingressus! (I entered ≠having entered) adipīscor, adipīscī, adeptus sum = get, gain, acquire adeptīsumus≠adeptī! (Wegot ≠having gotten)

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