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The future tense in the 3rd and 4th conjugation (-am, -ēs, -et etc.) ... The future passive infinitive uses the supine with the auxiliary verb īr ...
The future indicative has various endings depending on the verb. First conjugation verbs and eō and its compounds have a future ending in -bō (passive -bor); sum and its compounds have a future ending in -erō; other verbs have a future ending in -am (passive -ar): 1st conjugation: amābō 'I will love' (-bō, -bis, -bit, -bimus, -bitis, -bunt)
In the middle and passive voice, the periphrastic construction is also very common, but a synthetic construction is found as well, by adding the endings of the future tense to the perfect stem, for example λελύσομαι "I shall have been loosed". The synthetic construction is rare, and found only with a few verbs.
In the active voice only two verbs (τεθνήξω (tethnḗxō) "I will be dead" and ἑστήξω (hestḗxō) "I will be standing") have a separate form for the future perfect tense, [93] though a compound ("periphrastic") tense can be made with a perfect participle, e.g ἐγνωκὼς ἔσται (egnōkṑs éstai) [94] "he is going to ...
The active future perfect periphrastic tense is not found, but the passive occurs: cum aedificandum fuerit, ante biennium ea saxa eximantur (Vitruvius) [13] 'whenever (at some future time) it is necessary for a building to be made (using local stone), the stones for it should be quarried two years in advance'
The Future infinitive is used only for indirect statements (see below). [160] The passive Future infinitive is rare, and is frequently replaced with a phrase using fore ut. [161] Rarer tenses of the infinitive, for example captus fore or captūrus fuisse, are sometimes found in indirect speech.
Although the gerundive periphrasis is similar to the future periphrasis in appearance, they are not parallel in meaning nor function. Woodcock writes of the gerundive periphrasis: "But for the introduction of the idea of necessity, it would form a periphrastic future passive tense parallel to the periphrastic future active." [4]
Both the future and the perfect participle (but not the present participle) can be used with various tenses of the verb esse "to be" to make a compound tense such as the future-in-the-past or the perfect passive: Eō diē Rōmam ventūrus erat. [28] "On that day he was going to return to Rome." Occīsus est ā Thēbānīs. [29]