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The perfect passive is usually made with the perfect participle combined with sum, e.g. missus sum 'I was sent, I have been sent', ductus sum 'I was led, I have been led'. Some perfect tenses have an irregular stem, for example sum, fuī 'I am', eō, īvī 'I go', ferō, tulī 'I bring, I bear', tollō, sustulī 'I raise, I remove'.
The most frequent of these is the verb sum, esse "to be" together with its prefixed derivatives. There also exist deponent Latin verbs, which though active in meaning have endings identical to the passive endings of ordinary verbs.
1st conjugation: amātus sum (rarely amātus fuī) 'I was loved' 2nd conjugation: vīsus sum (vīsus fuī) 3rd conjugation (-ō): ductus sum (ductus fuī) 3rd conjugation (-iō): captus sum (captus fuī) 4th conjugation: audītus sum (auditus fuī) The forms with fuī are much less common. These forms are discussed in a separate section below.
Latin example Meaning Comment 'subjunctive present' futūrum esse ut dūcam: future in present 'that I will lead' futūrum esse ut dūcar: future in present 'that I will be led' 'subjunctive imperfect' futūrum esse ut dūcerem: future in past 'that I was going to lead' futūrum esse ut dūcerer: future in past 'that I was going to be led'
Portrait of the author. Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto is a phrase in Latin that means "I am man, nothing that is human is indifferent to me". [1]It is a phrase originating from Publius Terence Afer (c. 184 BC - ~ 159 BC), from his comedy Heautontimorumenos (The tormentor of himself), from the year 165 BC, where it is pronounced by the character Cremes to justify his meddling.
a posse ad esse: from being able to being "From possibility to actuality" or "from being possible to being actual". a posteriori: from the latter: Based on observation, i. e., empirical evidence. Opposite of a priori. Used in mathematics and logic to denote something that is known after a proof has been carried out.
sum quod eris: I am what you will be: A gravestone inscription to remind the reader of the inevitability of death (cf. memento mori). Also rendered fui quod sis ("I have been what you are") and tu fui ego eris ("I have been you, you will be I"). sum quod sum: I am what I am: from Augustine's Sermon No. 76. [16] summa cum laude: with highest ...
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]