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When to use perfect and imperfect
im not sure if questions relating to revising original latin content is allowed here so please tell me if I should remove my post.
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Marcus (speaking to Domitia): Mer?bās scī?re| ...
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Usurpare: use or usurp? A question about perfect vs. imperfect tense
Usurpare often means 'use' but it also can mean 'usurp'. In ancient and early modern texts on the Latin language, it can mean 'seize for a novel use'/'use in a new way'. Servius, for example, employs ...
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Difference between perfect + infinitive vs perfect + perfect infinitive
I'm working on a text and had this doubt about past tense. I want to say 'I liked seeing you' but I'm not sure if there's a difference between amavi videre te and amavi vidisse te.
Litterally I ...
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How did the contracted perfect passive work?
I was shocked when I saw the word "latest" in a Latin book. The book's English translation implies it is related to "latus." The next word "alteque" would have suggested ...
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Use of the perfect to indicate "whenever I do someting"
In the following sentence I do understand the reason the perfect is used for veni:
rure meo possum quidvis perferre patique; ad mare cum veni, generosum et lene requiro ("In my country estate I ...
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Questions for Regulus
I am recently trying to read Regulus, the Latin version of the Little Prince translated by Augusto Haury, and I met some problems in Chapter 4. It may be somewhat troublesome to make several threads ...
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Conjugate dīri?gere as 1st-person past tense
How might I say dīri?gere — which is conjugated dirigo, I think, in first person present tense, to first person past tense? Perfect, imperfect, I’d like to know them both.
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Perfect tense used to convey a planned action in the future
In Cicero's letters there is the following sentence:
In Cumanum hodie misi tabellarium. Ei dedi tuas ad Vestorium quas Pharnaci dederas. ("I am sending a courier to Cumanus today and I have given ...
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Is this a perfect passive infinitive with "esse" omitted?
The following sentence comes from lines 8-9 of chapter XXIII of Lingua latina per se illustrata. Familia Romana:
Tantum sciō epistulam Tūsculō missam et ā tabēllariō ad tē lātam esse.
I'm trying to ...
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What does "vestem scindebat" mean?
In LLPSI (CAP. XXV, line 111), ?rberg wrote the following:
multīs cum lacrimīs capillum et vestem scindēbat
I would have expected "vestem scidit", since the action of tearing clothes is ...
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To talk about repetitive past events (that used to occur regularly), do you use perfect or imperfect tense?
For example, how would you say "He used to come here every evening."? Would you say "Is hic venit quemque vesperem." or "Is hic veniebat quemque vesperem."? Or maybe ...
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Paradigm of (reduplicated) "fhefhaked"?
Do we have any reasonable speculations about a possible paradigm of archaic fhefhaked? I found an unreduplicated paradigm on Wikipedia, but I cannot judge its validity:
1st Sing. *fēkai
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Is the perfect passive always formed like so: verb + sum/es/est?
I'm using Wheelock's Latin and in the chapter which introduces the perfect passive system I came across this sentence:
"Ubi haec tragoedia recitāta est, senex sententiīs iūdicum est līberātus.&...
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Why does quaeso have no perfect?
Apparently the word quaeso, to ask, has no perfect tenses. Why is this?
It would seem that quaeso is related to quaero, which does have perfect tenses. So for example, quaesiit, he demanded.
So is ...
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Does suffero have perfect forms?
I read in "A Grammar of the Latin Language" by Karl Gottlob Zumpt that suffero has no perfect or supine because sustuli is for tollo. However I found perfect forms in online grammars. So, ...
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