For the double perfect infinitive, see #Perfect infinitive with fuisse below. The imperfect is translated as "I was praising", "I used to praise", "I kept on praising," or "I began to praise". As an aid to your understanding, this table only applies to the future tense. The perfect passive is usually made with the perfect participle combined with sum, e.g. This kind usually uses the imperfect or pluperfect subjunctive.[285]. Some perfect and pluperfect tenses can be shortened by omitting v: amram, amssem, audierat for amveram, amvissem, audverat. an imaginary 'you':[320]. (It must be distinguished in your translations from the perfect, which describes completed action.) Gildersleeve & Lodge (1895), p. 158; Allen & Greenough (1903), p. 329. laudtum The passive forms of these are 1st conjugation -or, -ris, -tur, 2nd conjugation -eor, -ris, -tur, 3rd conjugation -or, -eris, -itur (or -ior, -eris, -itur), and 4th conjugation -ior, -ris, -itur. The perfect participle refers to an action which took place before the time of the main verb, or to the state that something is in as a result of an earlier action: A deponent participle such as ratus 'thinking, reckoning' or veritus 'fearing' can often be translated as if it were present: The future participle is most commonly used in the periphrastic tenses or in indirect statements (see examples above). The first example below uses the present subjunctive, and the second the perfect:[279], In the following sentence, using the pluperfect subjunctive, according to one view, Queen Dido contemplates what 'might have been':[282], Others see the pluperfect subjunctive in this sentence as a wish ('if only I had carried! However, in the following example after qun, the imperfect subjunctive represents the transformation not of a future, but of a present indicative: To avoid ambiguity, the periphrastic future can also be used when the meaning is future, although this is not as common as in indirect questions: Verbs in subordinate clauses in indirect speech are also almost always in the subjunctive mood. It is used in indirect statements to describe something which it is going to be necessary to do: It can also describe what must inevitably happen at a future time: Compared to Greek, Latin is deficient in participles, having only three, as follows, as well as the gerundive. We know it is 4th conjugation -io because it ends in re, which tells us that it is 4th conjugation, and io because its first person singular ends in io (venio). As the warning notes, this summary may confu panda. 136, 224, 226; Greenough (1903), p. 304. The perfect tense, which we will learn later, is a more immediate reference to the past.

Sometimes the postquam clause itself has the present tense: Another idiom is the following using the conjunction cum:[27], Another idiom that can be mentioned is the phrase longum est, which means 'it would take a long time' or 'it would be tedious'. With the negative particle n the perfect subjunctive can express a negative command: As with wishes and conditional sentences, the imperfect and pluperfect subjunctives can represent a situation which, because it is in the past, cannot now be changed. Note that 'to be' is always there.

The gerundive of the verb (an adjectival form ending in -ndus) can be combined with the verb sum 'I am' to make a passive periphrastic tense. This is known as a generic relative clause: The subjunctive can also follow qu in a restrictive clause:[358]. deleted to maintain rigorous accuracy, which we will go back to striving for.). There is also a subjunctive which can be used in a hortatory sense: But sometimes the perfect nv has a past meaning, 'I became acquainted with' or 'I got to know': The perfect of cnsusc, cnsuv 'I have grown accustomed', is also often used with a present meaning:[132], The future perfect indicative ends in -er, -eris/-ers, -erit, -erimus/-ermus, -eritis/-ertis, -erint. Haverling, Gerd V.M. [246] However, there are sometimes exceptions: see #Sequence of tenses rule below for further details. Here the main clause is in the indicative or imperative, and the 'if'-clause follows the sequence of tenses rule, with present or perfect subjunctive for an imaginary present situation, and imperfect or pluperfect for an imaginary past one: For other examples of this see Latin conditional clauses#Conditional clauses of comparison. Devine, Andrew M. & Laurence D. Stephens (2006). [6] In some cases Latin makes a distinction which is not made in English: for example, imperfect eram and perfect fu both mean 'I was' in English, but they differ in Latin. The compound infinitives are usually found in the accusative case, as in most of the examples below. This rule can be illustrated with the following table:[451][452]. 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CONJUGATION FORMATION OF THE IMPERFECT TENSE, The rule: verb In other sentences, the pluperfect subjunctive is a transformation of a future perfect indicative, put into historic sequence. In a conditional clause of comparison ('as if') the use of tenses is different from the normal unreal conditional clause. In some sentences a length of time is given and the adverb iam 'now' is added:[20], The present tense can also be used in this meaning when combined with a temporal clause using postquam:[23]. [526] The ending -um does not change for gender or number: Another way of expressing the future in indirect statement is to use the phrase fore ut 'it would be the case that'. (Wiki-reading-tip: This is why they are in the future section, and were not discussed before.). If the main verb is in past time, an imperfect version of the periphrastic future subjunctive is used: It is also possible to form an imperfect periphrastic subjunctive with foret instead of esset (the first instance of this is in Sallust):[419], A perfect periphrastic subjunctive can be used with a conditional meaning ('would have done') in hypothetical conditional clauses in indirect questions in primary sequence. The irregular verbs possum 'I am able' and vol 'I want' have no future infinitive. When the verb is active, the simple perfect infinitive is used in a similar context: Another example not in direct speech the following, in which Martial is describing a magnificent he-goat depicted on a cup, and suggests that Phrixus's sister Helle might have preferred to have been riding on this rather than the ram which she fell off: There appear to be no examples of a deponent verb in this tense of the infinitive in classical Latin. Spanish fue matado en la guerra 'he was killed in the war', Portuguese foi construdo em 1982 'it was built in 1982'). Greenough (1903), p. 329; Gildersleeve & Lodge (1895), p. 391. IMPERFECT TENSE, EXAMPLES OF VERBS They describe something which should have been done in the past, but which it is now too late for:[271][272]. In indirect sentences of this kind there is in fact no difference between the vivid future and the ideal future conditional:[296], In the protasis of a conditional clause in indirect speech the imperfect subjunctive can similarly represent a future indicative:[298], It can also have a prospective or future meaning in a relative clause:[300]. For example, in the following sentence, a historic tense is followed by a perfect subjunctive:[462], In consecutive clauses also, a perfect tense in the main clause is often followed by a present or a perfect subjunctive:[468], In indirect conditional sentences, the periphrastic perfect subjunctive often remains even after a historic-tense main verb:[470], The perfect tense potuerim also can replace a pluperfect tense with the meaning 'could have' even after a historic verb:[472], Caesar and Sallust can sometimes use a present subjunctive in historic sequence when the meaning is jussive (although this practice is not always followed):[473], In general, in Livy, there is a tendency for a present or perfect tense of the original speech to be retained in historic sequence, while Cicero is more strict in following the historic sequence.[473]. Terrell (1904) collects numerous examples. the URL [197] In Cicero they are rarer still: the numbers of examples of the six tenses above are 1, 6, 5, 5, 5, 2 respectively.[198]. The future infinitive is used for events or situations in reported speech which are to take place later than the verb of speaking: As with the perfect passive infinitive, esse is often omitted: The verb possum 'I am able' has no future infinitive, but the present infinitive posse can have a future meaning:[526]. In all verbs, perfect tenses have the same personal endings. When a question is made indirect, the verb is always changed into the subjunctive mood. Gildersleeve & Lodge (1895), p. 387; Woodcock (1959), pp. The name, imperfect, helps you remember its use: in situations where you can't say when an event started or ended or happened, you must use the imperfect. Except with passive sentences using dcitur 'he is said' or vidtur 'he seems' and the like, the subject of the quoted sentence is usually put into the accusative case and the construction is known as an 'accusative and infinitive'. It is also possible for the protasis to be imperfect subjunctive, and the apodosis pluperfect subjunctive, or the other way round, as in the following examples: Sometimes a potential imperfect subjunctive refers to a situation in the past rather than the present:[308], Sometimes in poetry even a present subjunctive can be used to refer to an unreal past event, where in prose a pluperfect subjunctive would be used in both halves of the sentence:[310], In early Latin, a present subjunctive can also be used to make an unreal conditional referring to the present:[312]. Irregular verbs also have various formations in the present tense, for example, sum, es, est 'I am', possum, potes, potest 'I am able', e, s, it 'I go', vol, vs, vult 'I want', fer, fers, fert 'I bring or bear'. [89] However, in some cases it can be translated simply as a perfect tense in English: In later Latin this construction became more common, for example:[162]. Up to the time of Caesar and Cicero its use was almost restricted to a combination with the verb esse, making a periphrastic future tense (Woodcock). The Romans themselves[559] considered the gerundive also to be a participle, but most modern grammars treat it as a separate part of speech.[560]. Woodcock quotes the following example:[201]. This imperative is very common in early writers such as Plautus and Cato, but it is also found in later writers such as Cicero and Martial: Some verbs have only the second imperative, for example sct 'know', mement 'remember'. There are often two or more historic infinitives in succession. Similar to the above is the iterative or 'frequentative'[53] use of the imperfect, describing what something that kept on happening or which happened on an indefinite number of occasions: Sometimes the imperfect is used for description of the surroundings as they appeared at the time of the story: Another use is to describe an action that someone was intending to do, or about to do, but which never actually took place, or which was interrupted by another event:[56]. For example - "am, amre" (1st conjugation) would be. It can describe a present situation (e.g. The perfect tenses can be found in dictionaries; see Latin conjugation for some examples. ductrus 'going to lead') or a gerundive (e.g. In some authors, such as Livy and Sallust, a potential meaning can be given to the pluperfect subjunctive passive by substituting foret for esset: In other authors, however, the same meaning is expressed using a perfect participle + esset: Another use of foret is in indirect speech after s 'if' as the equivalent of the future indicative erit in the original direct speech: Combined with a perfect participle, it is the equivalent of a future perfect passive in the original speech: In each of the above sentences, foret looks to the future, relative to a point in the past. This page was last edited on 14 July 2022, at 07:38. The present subjunctive and future indicative in dc and other 3rd and 4th conjugation verbs are identical in the 1st person, but are different in the other persons: the present subjunctive has dcam, dcs, dcat etc, while the future has dcam, dcs, dcet. Gildersleeve, B. L. & Gonzalez Lodge (1895). [291] For example, in the following idiom the perfect is usual: In the following sentence both 'could' and 'could have' are possible:[255], In other examples, however, the perfect subjunctive definitely refers to the past and means 'could have done' or 'would have done':[294], Occasionally, an ideal conditional may be shifted to a past context, in which case the tense is the imperfect subjunctive. 'he has died') or a past event (e.g. As the table shows, there is no passive present or future participle, and no active past participle. NOTE: the B and the BIs - the distinguishing feature of future tense in Latin. Gildersleeve & Lodge (1895), pp. The forms with a short -i- (-eris, -erimus, -erit) were found in early Latin, but by the time of Catullus and Cicero, it seems that the future perfect had become confused in pronunciation with the perfect subjunctive, and the forms with long -i- were usual. Catullus 5.10. However, the imperfect indicative of sum 'I am' is eram, ers, erat and of possum 'I am able' it is poteram, poters, poterat. The jussive pluperfect is also fairly uncommon. In the following examples, the double perfect refers to a situation which existed a long time earlier, before Ovid was exiled: However, according to de Melo[206] it is not always possible to tell from the context whether the tense with fu refers to an anterior time or is merely a stylistic variation of an ordinary perfect passive. There is *no* rule to explain this, it just is, although there are memorization techniques that can help. [134] In poetry either form could be used, according to metrical convenience.[135]. These tenses can be compared with the similar examples with the perfect periphrastic infinitive cited below, where a conditional sentence made in imperfect subjunctives is converted to an indirect statement. Woodcock writes of the passive form: 'But for the introduction of the idea of necessity, it would form a periphrastic future passive tense parallel to the periphrastic future active. The future can also be used for polite requests, as when Cicero sends greetings to his friend Atticus's wife and daughter: The imperfect indicative is usually formed with the endings -bam, -bs, -bat (in 3rd and 4th conjugation verbs with -bam, -bas, -bat); e 'I go' has bam, bs, bat. It is used in indirect speech for representing the main verb of an unreal conditional, whether referring to a past time or present time.

For a long time it was rarely used. In this case there is not necessarily any idea of planning or intention, although there may be:[423], This tense can also be used in primary sequence reported speech, to represent the main clause in either an ideal conditional sentence or a simple future one (the distinction between these two disappears in indirect speech):[426]. [17], Another situation where the use of the historic present is frequent is in utterance verbs, such as fidem dant 'they give a pledge' or rant 'they beg'. The history of the perfect with fu is different from the other tenses. [51] (The imperfect, however, with a length of time, is used for a situation which was still going on at the time referred to; see the examples above.). Thus in the following example, according to the 19th-century grammarian Madvig,[214] the words clausus fuit do not describe an event but the state in which the temple of Janus was in: The perfect indicative with fu is not used by Cicero except in the following example,[216] where the participles are adjectival. The usual translation is the simple English past tense with '-ed' or the equivalent: The perfect active can also be used like the English present perfect ('I have done'):[76]. The endings are fairly basic, and follow fairly regular rules - however, the future endings used in 1st and 2nd conjugation differ from the endings of 3rd, 3rd-i, and 4th. In the following example the first dependent verb crat is primary sequence, but dxisset is pluperfect:[462], There are frequent exceptions to the sequence of tenses rule, especially outside of indirect speech. One common use is in indirect questions when the context is primary: In indirect questions in a historic context, an imperfect subjunctive usually represents the transformation of a present indicative:[336]. For the distinction between the different types, see Woodcock (1959), pp. (2012).

Here English often uses the pluperfect tense: It is also used in a past-time relative clause referring to an anterior action where similarly English might use a pluperfect: The perfect, not the imperfect, is used when a situation is said to have lasted in the past for a certain length of time, but is now over. In the first example, which is spoken by the ghost of Hector to Aeneas, encouraging him to flee from Troy, the tense with fuissent refers to an earlier time when Hector was still alive: The following unfulfillable wish also uses the double pluperfect subjunctive passive: Another example comes from Ovid, referring to the time before the Trojan War started: In the following example Ovid describes the fate of the Athenian princess Aglauros, who was turned to stone out of envy for her sister: The subjunctive mood, when used in independent clauses, can be optative (used in wishes), jussive ('should', 'is to'), or potential ('would', 'could', 'may', 'might'). to find the vowel associated with this conjugation. Infinitives formed with habre and habuisse are also possible, again with stress on the maintenance of the result: The perfect passive and deponent tenses are usually made from the perfect participle + the present, future, or imperfect tense of sum, as follows: The perfect passive and perfect deponent can be used like an English perfect tense, describing a present state resulting from an earlier event:[176]. classics@osu.edu, Designed and built by ASCTech Web Services, The Phaedon John Kozyris and Litsa Kozyris Travel Award, The Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Greek and Latin, Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization: Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean, Graduate Program on Classical Antiquity and the Near East, The Miltiadis Marinakis Endowed Professorship of Modern Greek Language and Culture, Honoring the memory of Phaedon J. Kozyris, Visual Resources in the Teaching of Modern Greece, Subordinate Clauses in Indirect Discourse, If you have a disability and experience difficulty accessing this site, please contact us for assistance via email at. Sometimes the auxiliary verb est or sunt is omitted. (See Latin conjugation.). For the length of the , see Fordyce's note. A typical use is in conditional clauses and temporal clauses referring to the future: The pluperfect passive and pluperfect deponent are made with eram: The future perfect and pluperfect tenses can also have the auxiliary before the participle, sometimes separated by other words: Not every perfect participle combined with est is a perfect tense, however. The future infinitive is used only for indirect statements.[480]. Often the esse part of a compound infinitive is omitted when combined with a participle or gerundive: The present infinitive is occasionally used in narrative as a tense in its own right. In the following examples, the pluperfect with fuerat is used similarly to refer to an earlier situation which later changed, while the later situation is expressed by the perfect tense: The following example looks back to a conversation which had taken place at an earlier time and in another place: The following refers to a time in the distant past: Usually with this tense it is unnecessary to add an adverb meaning 'earlier', since it is implied in the tense, but in the following it is made explicit with the words superire tempore: In the following the meaning 'previously' or 'earlier on' is not explicit, but would fit the context: Like the pluperfect indicative with fueram, the pluperfect subjunctive with fuissem sometimes refers to an earlier time, which is now over. When the main verb is present tense, therefore, the present or perfect subjunctive is usually used in the subordinate clause. [60] The adverb iam 'by now' is sometimes added: Sometimes in letters a writer imagines himself in the position of the recipient and uses an imperfect tense to describe a situation which for the writer himself is present:[65]. We leave in the i because it is io. In sentences which mean 'whenever X occurs, Y occurs', referring to general time, the perfect tense is used for event X if it precedes event Y. This gives us the imperfect conjugation. When a conditional sentence expresses a generalisation, the present subjunctive is used for any 2nd person singular verb, whether in the subordinate clause or the main clause:[316] This generalising subjunctive is found either in a subordinate clause or in the main clause: The 2nd person imperfect subjunctive when potential is nearly always indefinite and generalising, i.e. The passive and deponent perfectum tenses are made using the perfect participle of the verb, which is the fourth principal part given in dictionaries (for example ductus '(having been) led' or loctus 'having spoken') combined with various tenses of the verb sum. or monre), Warning: Beyond the imperfect, this page is not entirely clear. In the following example, Cicero contrasts the time when Marcus Claudius Marcellus captured Syracuse (3rd century BC) with the period when Gaius Verres was governor of Sicily (7370 BC): However, in the following examples, there appears to be little or no difference in meaning between the pluperfect with fuisset and that with esset, and difference is perhaps only one of style: Because the feminine participle + fuisset makes a suitable ending for a hexameter, it is possible that in the following examples the double pluperfect is merely used for metrical convenience, rather than indicating an anterior time. non-past) tenses. In such sentences the imperfect subjunctive in the subordinate clause (in this case faceret) is left unchanged, despite the fact that the main verb is primary. For this reason, it can have a future form factrus er, used for example in future conditional or future temporal clauses: A past version of the periphrastic future can be made with the imperfect tense of sum, describing what someone's intentions were at a moment in the past: In a conditional sentence this tense can mean 'would have done':[70], Although less common than the periphrastic future with eram, the perfect tense version of the periphrastic future is also found:[419]. For example, dc 'I lead' makes the perfect tense dx 'I led'; faci 'I do' makes fc 'I did'; sum 'I am' makes fu 'I was' and so on. dcendus 'needing to be led') with any tense of the verb sum 'I am', as follows: The passive tenses formed with the gerundive are known as the 'periphrastic conjugation of the passive'.[363]. In Greenough (1903), p. 278, the term 'hortatory' is used instead of 'jussive'. According to Gildersleeve and Lodge, this form of the perfect 'is not a mere circumlocution for the Perfect, but lays particular stress on the maintenance of the result'.

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