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21. Perfect tense of esse, posse, and ire.
LATIN GRAMMAR 55
(esse, to be) (posse, to be able) (ire, to go)
fui, I IJave been p6tui, I have been able ivi (ii), I hav~ gone
NOTE. (a) All other perfect tenses (the pluperfect and future perfect
indicative and the perfect and pluperfect subj unctive) are formed
on the perfect stems as given above. Only the endings will differ. For
these tenses, see the Appendix.
b) Many verbs are irregular in the perfect. But, if the first person
singular of the perfect is known, all other forms of the perfect active
tenses can be formed on the sten1 of this one.
c) Past participles are frequently irregular. Hereafter, whenever
verbs are given in the vocabularies the first person singular of the perfect
and the past participle of all irregular verbs will be given also.
d) The vi of the second person singular and plural of first conjugation
verbs is frequently dropped: laudasti and laudastis for laudavlsti
and laudavlstis.
22. Prepositions.
a) The following prepositions govern the accusative:
ad, to, toward, near
ante, befor~
apud, to, with, in the presence 0/
circum, around
contra, against
inter, between, among
intra, within
ob, for, in consideration 0/
per, tlJrough, by
post, after
propter, for, because of
secundum, according to