Latin Verb Tenses

How many tenses are there in Latin?

• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6

Which tense is used for action in the past that is incomplete?

• present
• imperfect
• pluperfect
• future perfect

What are the key letters for imperfect?

• ba

• bo/bi/bu

• era

• v/u/s/x

How do you translate the perfect tense?

• was verbing
• verbed
• will verb
• had verbed

What tense is this verb?  pugnat

• present
• imperfect
• perfect
• pluperfect

What is the correct translation: pulsabant

• they were punching

• they will punch

• they punched

• they will have punched

For conjugations 1, 2, and 3, the imperfect tense is formed by

• using the first principal part

• infinitive + bam, bas, bat...

• changing stem vowel to i

• the present stem + endings

For conjugations 3-io and 4, the stems change to have "ie" for the _____ tense.

• present

• imperfect

• perfect

Translate an infinitive as _____

• Do!

• Don't!

• to ______

Use the present stem for ________

• present tense

• imperfect tense

• perfect tense

• positive imperatives