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  2. Latin tenses - Wikipedia

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    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'

  3. Latin conjugation - Wikipedia

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    The word "conjugation" comes from the Latin coniugātiō, a calque of the Greek συζυγία (syzygia), literally "yoking together (horses into a team)". For examples of verbs and verb groups for each inflectional class, see the Wiktionary appendix pages for first conjugation , second conjugation , third conjugation , and fourth conjugation .

  4. Imperfect - Wikipedia

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    The imperfect of ser is likewise a continuation of the Latin imperfect (of esse), with the same stem appearing in tú eres (thanks to pre-classical Latin rhotacism). The imperfect of ver (veía etc.) was historically considered regular in Old Spanish, where the infinitive veer provided the stem ve-, but that is no longer the case in standard ...

  5. Latin grammar - Wikipedia

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    Latin is a heavily inflected language with largely free word order. Nouns are inflected for number and case; pronouns and adjectives (including participles) are inflected for number, case, and gender; and verbs are inflected for person, number, tense, aspect, voice, and mood.

  6. Latin tenses with modality - Wikipedia

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    The imperfect indicative generally has an imperfective meaning and describes situations in the past. Often the imperfect can be translated into English as 'was doing', but sometimes the simple tense 'did' or expressions such as 'used to do', 'would do', 'kept doing', 'began to do', 'had been doing' are more appropriate.

  7. Latin syntax - Wikipedia

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    Latin word order is relatively free. The verb may be found at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of a sentence; an adjective may precede or follow its noun (vir bonus or bonus vir both mean 'a good man'); [5] and a genitive may precede or follow its noun ('the enemies' camp' can be both hostium castra and castra hostium; the latter is more common). [6]

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  9. Latin tenses in dependent clauses - Wikipedia

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    Latin example English translation Comment imperfect in imperfect present in future 'present subjunctive' quaerēs fortāsse, cūr, cum haec in urbe sint, nōn absim, quemadmodum tū. (Cicero) [45] '[one day] you may ask yourself why, since this will take place in the city, I will not be away [from our city] like you' will do in English