Plural
Singul
ar
REGULAR VERBS
(Active)
1st
2nd
3rd
1st
2nd
3rd
I
You
He / she / it
We
You
They
ego
tu
nos
vos
Present
I am being
carried
portor
portaris
portatur
portamur
portamini
portantur
Future
I will be carried,
I shall be carried,
I am going to be
carried
portabor
portaberis
portabitur
portabimur
portabimini
portabuntur
Imperfect
I was being carried
Perfect
I have been carried,
I was carried
Pluperfect
I had been carried
portabar
portabaris
portabatur
portabamur
portabamini
portabantur
portatus sum
portatus es
portatus est
portatis sumus
portati estis
portati sunt
portatus eram
portatus eras
portatus erat
portati eramus
portati eratis
portati erant
1) The easiest way to spot the TENSE of a verb is to look for particular clues.
 Present tenses only occur when there are speech marks.
 Future tenses tend to have - bi – in the ending. The Future tense is rare in Latin and only appears when there are speech marks.
 Imperfect tenses always have – ba – in the ending (remember “Ba, the Imperfect sheep, WAS always crying; tears WERE running down her face”)
 Perfect tenses are made up of two parts. The first part changes gender and number. So you sometimes get portata est or portatis sunt.
 Pluperfect tenses are made up of two parts. The first part changes gender and number. So you sometimes get portata erat or portatis erant.
2) There are 4 conjugations of verbs. They all follow the pattern of porto as drawn out above, but you can see that there are some tiny detail differences:
i
1st conjugation
porto
portare
portavi
portatus
I carry
(tends to have an a in the ending)
2nd conjugation
doceo
docere
docui
doctus
I teach
(tends to have an e in the ending)
3rd conjugation
traho
trahere
traxi
tractus
I drag
(tends to have an e in the ending)i
4th conjugation
audio
audire
audivi
auditus
I hear, listen
(tends to have an i in the ending)
Note that the Future tense of the 3rd and 4th conjugations go: trahar, traheris, trahetur, trahemur, trahemini, trahentur; and audiar, audieris, audietur, audiemur, audiemini, audientur.