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The future participle with the present tense of sum is known as the periphrastic future. It describes a person's intention at the present time. It describes a person's intention at the present time. It can be translated with 'going to', 'planning to', 'intending to', or by using the future continuous 'I'll be doing':
The present active participle is declined as a 3rd declension adjective. The ablative singular is -e , but the plural follows the i-stem declension with genitive -ium and neuter plural -ia . The perfect passive participle is declined like a 1st and 2nd declension adjective .
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.
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]
The term, present participle, was first used circa 1864 [7] to facilitate grammatical distinctions. Despite the taxonomical use of "past" and "present" as associated with the aforementioned participles, their respective semantic use can entail any tense, regardless of aspect, depending on how they are structurally combined.
Latin Example Meaning Comment 'indicative future' divīsum erit: past in future 'it will have been divided' future 'it will be divided' 'indicative present' divīsum est: past in present 'it has been divided' present 'it is divided' past 'it was divided' 'indicative imperfect' divīsum erat: past in past 'it had been divided' past 'it was divided'
Latin example English translation Comment relative future future in present 'present infinitive of periphrastic future' cōnfīdō, tē factūrum esse omnia (Cicero) [4] 'I believe in you that you will do everything' [the fact] that x will do in English future in past 'accusative of future participle' locum ubī esset facile inventūrōs (Nepos ...
There are six simple tenses in Latin (present, imperfect, future, perfect, pluperfect and future perfect), three moods (indicative, imperative and subjunctive, in addition to the infinitive, participle, gerund, gerundive and supine), three persons (first, second and third), two numbers (singular and plural), two voices (active and passive) and ...