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Latin Conjugations, Principal Parts, and Non-Finite Forms

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Summary

In grammar, conjugation can mean the process of creating the different forms of a verb from its basic forms or principal parts. For example, a verb changes form to indicate person, number, tense, mood, or voice.

The word also means a class of verbs that share a pattern of inflections. Verbs in one conjugation tend to use similar endings when they form their tenses and other grammatical forms. Learning the class helps you predict many forms, though it does not reveal every form of every verb.

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What are the two meanings of conjugation?
The process of forming verb forms, and a class of verbs that share an inflectional pattern.
How are the four regular Latin conjugations commonly identified?
By the present active infinitive endings -āre, -ēre, -ere, and -īre.
What is a Latin verb paradigm?
The set of forms belonging to a verb; it may draw on more than one stem.
What are the four principal parts of a regular Latin verb?
Present active first-person singular, present active infinitive, perfect active first-person singular, and supine or perfect passive participle.
What is a deponent verb?
A verb with passive-form endings but active meaning, such as *sequor* (“I follow”).

Quiz questions

  1. Which principal part gives a regular Latin verb’s first-person singular perfect indicative active form?Answer: The third principal part.
  2. What commonly distinguishes a gerundive from a gerund?Answer: A gerundive is an adjective that often expresses necessity.
  3. How does a semi-deponent verb typically form its tenses?Answer: It uses active forms in imperfective tenses and deponent-style forms in perfect tenses.
  4. What does the active periphrastic conjugation commonly express?Answer: Intention or an action someone is about to do.
  5. Which Latin verb serves as the passive of *faciō* (“do, make”)?Answer: *Fīō*.

Based on the Wikipedia article Latin conjugation, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.

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