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In a dictionary, Latin verbs are listed with four "principal parts" (or fewer for deponent and defective verbs), which allow the student to deduce the other conjugated forms of the verbs. These are: the first person singular of the present indicative active; the present infinitive active; the first person singular of the perfect indicative active
Future indicative: voi fi, vei fi, va fi, vom fi, veți fi, vor fi; Future perfect indicative : voi fi fost, vei fi fost, va fi fost, vom fi fost, veți fi fost, vor fi fost . New forms also developed, such as the conditional, which in most Romance languages started out as a periphrasis, but later became a simple tense.
Absolutely (with the meaning "rather" or "more than usual") With quam (Latin for "than") With an ablative meaning "than" With the genitive; Examples: Cornēlia est fortis puella: Cornelia is a brave girl. The comparative adjective can be used absolutely (i.e. without any overt comparison) or with the comparison made explicit:
In Romance, the inchoative suffixes in Latin became incorporated into the inflections of fourth conjugation verbs (-īre).Catalan, Occitan, Italian, and Romanian have distinctions between "infixed" (infixed with the inchoative suffix -ēscō) and "pure" (non-infixed) verbs, with the number of pure verbs tend to be fewer than the infixed ones, while French has pure verbs but treated as irregular.
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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.
Indicative mood: The indicative mood, or evidential mood, is used for factual statements and positive beliefs. The Spanish conditional, although semantically expressing the dependency of one action or proposition on another, is generally considered indicative in mood, because, syntactically, it can appear in an independent clause.
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