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LATIN GRAMMAR<br />

vester, vestra, vestrum, your, yours (pI.)<br />

qui, who (relative)<br />

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II. The imperfect tense. This is formed by adding the following<br />

personal endings to the base:<br />

Active<br />

Passive<br />

Singular Plural Singular Plural<br />

-bam -bamus -bar -bamur<br />

-bas -batis -baris -bamini<br />

-bat -bant -batur -bantur<br />

Thus for the first conjugation we have the following:<br />

Singular<br />

Active<br />

Plural<br />

lauda-bam, I praised lauda-bamus, we praised<br />

lauda-bas, thou praisedst lauda-batis, you praised<br />

lauda-bat, he praised lauda-bant, they praised<br />

Passive<br />

lauda-bar, 1 was praised lauda-bamur, we were praised<br />

lauda-baris, thou wast praised lauda-hamini, you were praIsed<br />

lauda-batur, he was praised lauda-bantur, they were praised<br />

For the other conjugations the imperfect tense is formed in a similar<br />

n1anner. Thus we have:<br />

mone-bam, I warned monebar, I was warned<br />

duce-bam, lied cluce-har, I was led<br />

audie-bam, I heard audie-bar, I was heard<br />

NOTE. Since there are no progressive tenses in <strong>Latin</strong>, laudabam<br />

means I praised or I was praising.<br />

12. The imperative. The common imperative forms are two in<br />

number: a singular form corresponding to the pronoun tu, and a<br />

plural form corresponding to vos.

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