Chapter 13
What does tense refer
to?
time of the verb
Per Viam Appiam iter faciebant.
They were traveling along the
Appian Way.
Syrus equos verberbat.
Syrus did whip the horses.
Syrus kept whipping the horses.
The imperfect tense can be recognized by the
-ba- -eba- -eratense sign _________________that
appears
in front of
___________________
the personal endings.
Verbs in the imperfect tense describe
_____________that
took place in _________
actions
past
time
continuous
___________
and that were _____________
or______________.
repeated
They were traveling.
continuous, repeated
They traveled.
completed
like movie film
like still picture
Activity 1 - Fill in the blanks.
1.
When we refer to the tense of the verb, we mean the
time
_________________________ when the action occurs.
2.
The action of a present tense verb happens in the
present
_________________________,
but the action of an imperfect
past
tense verb was happening in the ______________________.
3.
The imperfect tense in Latin is indicated by the tense sign
-ba_________________,
which which appears before the personal
endings, -o or –m, -s, -t, -mus, –tis, -nt
4.
sum, esse
Exceptions to this rule are the irregular verbs ______________
possum, posse which have the letters ____________
and ________________
-erain their imperfect forms.
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 _________
Activity 4: Conjugate each verb in the present then imperfect.
rule and stem ______________________________________
Present
Latin - singular
English - singular
Latin - plural
English - plural
1st:
2nd:
3rd:
tense sign ________________________________________
Imperfect
1st:
2nd:
3rd:
Latin - singular
English - singular
Latin - plural
English - plural
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.