Scanlon's Latin Grammar - Essan.org

a) coeplsse, to have begun; odisse, to hate,. meminisse, to relnelnber.
These verbs occur anIy in the perfect tenses.
LATIN GRAMMAR
e) Latin has no single word that is equivalent to our word " yes,"
although various adverbs, such as etiam, even so, are used as a substitute
or the important part of the question is repeated as a statement.
Do you belzeve tlzis? Yes.
Credis hoc? Credo or Etiam.
liN0" may be expressed by the simple word non or the verb of the
question may be repeated with non.
Can you do these things? No.
Potestisne haec facere ? Non or
Non possumus.
50. Defective verbs. These are verbs that have lost certain of their
tenses.
PERFECT INFINITIVE: coeplsse, to have begun; odisse, to hate; memi­
nisse, to renlenlber.
PERFECT INDICATIVE: coepi, I began; odi, I Izate;l memini, I remenlber.
PAST PARTICIPLE: coeptus, begun; osus, hated.
OBSERVE. The perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect of odisse and
meminisse have the meanings of a present, imperfect and future respectivel
y.
odi, I hate; 6deram, I hated; 6dcro, I slzall hat~.
memini, I relnember; memlneram, I remembered; meminero, I shalJ
remelnber.
b) Other verbs have lost their perfect tenses and are partly defecti
ve in other tenses.
aio, I say. The commonest forms of this verb are the third person
singular and plural of the present indicative: ait, h~ says (saith), aiunt,
they say.
1 Also, sometimes, T hat~d.