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Modal meanings of 'present indicative' verbs Meaning Form name Latin example English translation present possibility 'present indicative' tū fortasse vērum dīcis (Cicero) [94] perhaps you are telling the truth present frequency 'present indicative' haec egō patior cōtidie (Cicero) [95] I suffer these things every day atemporal fact [96]
The six main indicative tenses in classical Latin are the following, using the verb dūcō as an example: [7] (a) Infectum tenses Present: dūcō 'I lead, I am leading' Future: dūcam 'I will lead, I will be leading' Imperfect: dūcēbam 'I was leading, I used to lead' (b) Perfectum tenses Perfect: dūxī 'I led, I have led'
The present indicative active and the present infinitive are both based on the present stem. It is not possible to infer the stems for other tenses from the present stem. This means that, although the infinitive active form normally shows the verb conjugation, knowledge of several different forms is necessary to be able to confidently produce ...
In many areas of Latin America (especially Central America and southern South America), the second-person familiar singular pronoun tú is replaced by vos, which frequently requires its own characteristic verb forms, especially in the present indicative, where the endings are -ás, -és, and -ís for -ar, -er, -ir verbs, respectively.
In Latin, most verbs have four principal parts.For example, the verb for "to carry" is given as portō – portāre – portāvī – portātum, where portō is the first-person singular present active indicative ("I carry"), portāre is the present active infinitive ("to carry"), portāvī is the first-person singular perfect active indicative ("I carried"), and portātum is the neuter supine.
present or perfect indicative (or subjunctive) present indicative General (past) If ever it used to happen: imperfect or pluperfect indicative (or subjunctive) imperfect indicative Imaginary situations: Ideal (future) If it were to happen: present or perfect subjunctive present subjunctive (or indicative) Ideal (past) If it were to have happened
The verb later transformed to *haveō in many Romance languages (but etymologically Spanish haber), resulting in irregular indicative present forms *ai, *as, and *at (all first-, second- and third-person singular), but ho, hai, ha in Italian and -pp-(appo) in Logudorese Sardinian in present tenses.
Spanish morphologically distinguishes the indicative, imperative, subjunctive, and conditional moods. In the indicative mood, there are synthetic (one-word, conjugated for person/number) forms for the present tense, the past tense in the imperfective aspect, the past tense in the perfective aspect, and the future tense.