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Conjugation Verbs
Present and Future Tenses
Let’s Review: 3rd Conjugation!
• 3rd conjugation verbs have –O, -ERE in their
dictionary entry.
• pono, ponere, posui, positus
• mitto, mittere, misi, missus
NO “-BO”
• 3rd conjugation verbs do NOT use our “old”
future tense endings:
• -bo, -bis, -bit, -bimus, -bitis, -bunt
• You only use the “-bo” endings for 1st and 2nd
conjugation verbs (-o, -are and –eo, -ēre)
Use me:
E!
·Present Tense:
·pono
·ponis
·ponit
ponimus
ponitis
ponunt
·Future Tense:
·ponam
·pones
·ponet
ponemus
ponetis
ponent
Let’s Review: 3rd –io Conjugation!
• 3rd conjugation –io verbs have –IO, -ERE in
their dictionary entry.
• capio, capere, cepi, captus
• facio, facere, feci, factus
3rd –IO Conjugation Future
Tense Endings
Singular
Plural
1st person
2nd person
I will…
we will…
you will…
y’all will…
they will…
3rd person
he/she/it will…
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i
Let’s review: 4th Conjugation
• Their first ending is always –io.
• 4th conjugation verbs always have –ire for
their infinitive ending.
– munio, munire, munivi, munitus
– venio, venire, vēni, venturus
Finding the Stem
4th Conjugation Verbs
• 4th conjugation verbs just drop the –re to find
their stem.
• venio, venire, veni, venturus
• Then you’re going to add the future tense
endings…
So…what does it mean???
• Cibum in carrum ponimus.
• We place the food into the cart.
• Cibum in carrum ponemus.
• We will place the food into the cart.
• You know ponemus is future because you know
that pono, ponere is 3rd conjugation and 3rd
conjugation verbs use “E” in their future tense
endings.
NO “-BO”
• Neither 3rd, 3rd –io nor 4th conjugation verbs
use our “old” future tense endings:
• -bo, -bis, -bit, -bimus, -bitis, -bunt
• You only use the “-bo” endings for 1st and 2nd
conjugation verbs (-o, -are and –eo, -ēre)
Use us:
I and E!
Every “E” Is Not Future Tense 
• 2nd conjugation verbs have “e” that occurs
naturally in their PRESENT tense.
• 2nd conjugation verbs: -eo, -ēre
• doceo, docēre: teach
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Present Tense
doceo docemus
doces docetis
docet docent
Future Tense
docebo
docebimus
docebis
docebitis
docebit
docebunt
Cheat Sheet!
• If a verb ends in bo, bis, bit, bimus, bitis, bunt, it’s
DEFINITELY future tense.
• If a verb ends in –am it’s DEFINITELY future tense (1st
person, “I will…”)
• If a verb ends in –es, -et, -emus, -etis, -ent it’s either
PRESENT or FUTURE. Do a conjugation check:
• 2nd conjugation: PRESENT
• 3rd/4th conjugation: FUTURE
• If a verb ending has a combination of –ie-, it’s always
future tense.
Your Turn!
• Conjugate duco, ducere in the present AND
future tense.
• Conjugate facio, facere in the present AND
future tense.
• Conjugate audio, audire in the present AND
future tense.