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First Conjugation Reduplicated Posted by on Jan 6, 2010

Today we’ll look at first conjugation verbs in the imperfect tense, especially those that are reduplicated in the perfect tense. The active, indicative, imperfect of stāre = to stand stābam stābās stābat stābāmus stābātis stābant Now the passive, indicative, imperfect : stābar stābāris stābātur stābāmur stābāminī stābantur

First Conjugation with Suffix -uī Posted by on Dec 30, 2009

Now we’ll look at first conjugation verbs in the imperfect tense with a suffix of uī. First the indicative, active, imperfect of secāre = to cut, divide secābam sacābās secābat secābāmus secābātis secābant In the passive, indicative, imperfect: secābar secābāris secābātur secābāmur secābāminī secābantur �

First Conjugation Imperfect Tense Posted by on Dec 18, 2009

Now that we’ve gone over the first to fourth conjugation in the indicative present in the active and passive, let’s do the imperfect tense. For today’s verb we’ll use portāre (to carry). The tempus imperfectum (imperfect tense) of portāre is the equivalent of saying, “I carried” or “I used to carry” or “I was carrying”…

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