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Latin grammar question about tenses in third and fourth declension?
in a 3rdio (blankio, blankere) word, like fugio fugere, would i put it into the imperfect and future tenses (2nd person plural) as fugis or fugiis? fugebas or fugiebas?
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- Anonymous10 years agoFavorite Answer
Let's get the terminology sorted out first. Declensions are about what NOUNS and ADJECTIVES do when you go from case to case.
VERBS don't decline, you conjugate their different tenses, moods and voices in Latin. Now let's deal with the issue of "fugio", which is a THIRD CONJUGATION verb. You will find this verb's full conjugation at
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fugio
Wind down the page to "Inflection" and click the "Show" link to reveal every form of the verb. As you will see:
SECOND PERSON SINGULAR IMPERFECT INDICATIVE ACTIVE: fugiēbās
SECOND PERSON PLURAL IMPERFECT INDICATIVE ACTIVE: fugiēbātis
SECOND PERSON SINGULAR FUTURE INDICATIVE ACTIVE: fugiēs
SECOND PERSON PLURAL FUTURE INDICATIVE ACTIVE: fugiētis
If you want to find out more about verb forms in the third and fourth Latin conjugation, see:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Latin_third...
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Latin_fourt...
Done with a basic knowledge of Latin.
- Anonymous10 years ago
In 3rd declension, future is done with an "e" as the theme-valve. So fugis would be fuges. Imperfect is standard across the declensions, it's always ebas.
4th declension future would be fugies.