Year 4C · Grade 8: The Complete Verb System
Organize Latin verbs by tense, voice, and the principal part used to build each form.
What to notice
- six indicative tenses
- active and passive voice
- principal parts
Examples
- amo / amabam / amabo — I love / was loving / will love. Present, imperfect, and future belong to the present system.
- amavi / amaveram / amavero — I loved / had loved / will have loved. The third principal part gives the perfect active stem.
- amor — I am loved. The ending -or marks first-person singular passive voice.
- amatus sum — I was loved / have been loved. Latin combines a perfect passive participle with sum for the perfect passive system.
- possum — I am able. possum combines the ability stem pot- with sum.
- amandus — to be loved / needing to be loved. The future passive participle can express what ought or needs to be done.