![]() Literally, “Caesar thought himself to ought not to allow this.” Remember oportet is used impersonally, with an accusative, but dēbeō is conjugated with the personal endings.Ĭaesar hoc sē nōn concedere dēbēre putābat.Ĭaesar thought that he ought not to allow this.Īnother example of the accusative + infinitive for indirect statement, adapted from Book 1 of Caesar’s dē Bellō Gallicō. Remember licet is used impersonally, with a dative. The soldiers were putting down their swords. The farmer was growing/cultivating grain. The king was governing the kingdom rightly for a long time. New Vocabulary LatinĬorrectly, rightly used with a verb of speaking to mean “to be right” Remember that the imperfect tense expresses habitual or ongoing action, so our standard translation is “was/were verb-ing” or “used to verb,” although in practicality some sentences sound much better with a simple past tense. Irregular verbs are unique, but most use –ē- as well. It will be –ā- for 1st conjugation verbs, and –ē- for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th conjugations. All verbs need a connecting vowel between their stem from their 1st principal part, and the imperfect ending. They are still active in meaning, just passive in form. The deponent verbs will have these endings: If you wish to review those lessons, they begin here: Verbs Present 3 Lesson 1 They include some irregular verbs, which largely have the same endings we’ve been seeing, and deponent verbs, which have different endings because their forms are identical to passive voice verbs. ![]() We're using the “Present Tense 3” verbs in this lession. In this lesson we’ll continue studying verbs in the imperfect tense. If you would like to catch up, you can find a directory of lessons, a classified vocabulary list, and Memrise courses at the links on the right. Here you can peruse a new lesson in Latin, in a simple format. Salvēte omnēs! Welcome back to Latin for Wikiversity.
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