Chapter 13

What does tense refer to?

time of the verb

Per Viam Appiam iter faciebant.

 

They were traveling along theAppian Way.

Syrus equos verberbat.

Syrus did whip the horses.

Syrus kept whipping the horses.

The imperfect tense can be recognized by

the tense sign _________________that appears

___________________ the personal endings.

 

Verbs in the imperfect tense describe

_____________that took place in _________

___________ and that were _____________

or______________.

-ba- -era-

in front of

actions past

time continuous

repeated

-eba-

They were traveling.

continuous, repeated like movie film

 

They traveled.completed like still picture 

Activity 1 - Fill in the blanks.

 

1. When we refer to the tense of the verb, we mean the

_________________________ when the action occurs. 

2. The action of a present tense verb happens in the

_________________________, but the action of an imperfect tense

verb was happening in the ______________________. 

3. The imperfect tense in Latin is indicated by the tense sign

_________________, which which appears before the personal

endings, -o or –m, -s, -t, -mus, –tis, -nt 

4. Exceptions to this rule are the irregular verbs ______________

and ________________ which have the letters ____________

in their imperfect forms.

time

presentpast

-ba-

sum, essepossum,

posse-era-

.

Activity 2 – Identify whether the following verbs are in the present or imperfect tense.

1. invenit __________ 6. ferunt __________ 11. erat__________

2. ambulat __________ 7. poterat__________ 12. volebat _________

3. iubebat __________ 8. sunt __________ 13. vitat __________

4. erant __________ 9. latrant __________ 14. faciebat _________

5. ibant __________ 10. quiescebant ______ 15. fert _________

 

Present

Latin - singular English - singular Latin - plural English - plural

1st:

2nd:

3rd:

Imperfect

Latin - singular English - singular Latin - plural English - plural

1st:

2nd:

3rd:

rule and stem ______________________________________

tense sign ________________________________________

Activity 4: Conjugate each verb in the present then imperfect.

Activity 5 – Translate

1. Liberi tabellarium spectabant.

2. Cornelius, ubi epistulas scribebat, uxorem et liberos vidēre nolebat.

3. Cornelius gaudebat quod omnes incolumes erant.

4. Dormiebasne*, Syre? Minime vero (no

indeed), domine! Ego placide per viam ibam(I was

going).

5. Appropinquabatne* cisium placide? Minime! Celerrime per viam ibat.

6. Syrus tabellarium vitāre poterat quod equos tenebat.

7. Cur tu celeriter iter faciebas?

8. Cornelia, quae defessa erat, in cubiculo dormiebat.

9. Nos raedas magnā arte agebamus.

10. Latrabant canes; per agros currebant; Getam invenīre non poterant.

11. Flavia misera erat quod Cornelia in villā manēre non poterat.