Future Tense in Latin, 1st and 2nd Conjugations

What is the infix that we look for in future tense verbs of the 1st and 2nd conjugations?

Answer explanation

-bo, -bi, -bi, -bi, -bi, -bu sounds like baby talk; think of babies as the future of humanity

How would we translate this Latin verb into English?

amābimus

• we love

• we shall love

• we were loving

• we had loved

• we are loved

How would we translate this Latin verb into English?

docēbunt

• they teach

• they were teaching

• they are teaching

• they will teach

• they are taught

Answer explanation

if someone is taught, they are doctus, which gives us our English word doctor - well-taught

How would we translate this Latin verb into English?

audēbō

• I dare

• I shall dare

• dare!

• I was daring

• I have dared

Answer explanation

audacious, from the 1540s, - confident, intrepid, daring, - comes from French audacieux, which in turn comes from Latin audere - to dare, to be bold.

How would we translate this Latin verb into English?

favēbit

• they will favor

• we shall favor

• you will favor

• I shall favor

• he will favor

Answer explanation

favor as a verb in English comes from the mid-14C. from Old French favorer.

How would we translate this Latin verb into English?

persuādēbunt

• they will persuade

• she will persuade

• we shall persuade

• you all will persuade

• I shall persuade

Answer explanation

persuade comes from Latin per + suādēre, to induce, suggest, from the 1530s. n.b.v; suade by itself isn't a verb in English

How would we translate this Latin verb into English?

dēlēbimus

• they will destroy

• we shall destroy

• you will destroy

• I shall destroy

• she will destroy

Answer explanation

destroy as a verb appears in the 1530s, from Latin deletus, past participle of delere "destroy, blot out, efface," from delevi, originally perfective tense of delinere "to daub, erase by smudging" (as of the wax on a writing table), from de "from, away" + linere "to smear, wipe,"

How would we translate this Latin verb into English?

nāvigabimus

• they will sail

• we shall sail

• you will sail

• I shall sail

• she will sail

Answer explanation

navigate as a verb first appeared in English in about the 1640s in London.

How would we translate this phrase in English into just one Latin verb?

you all shall change!

• mūtābunt

• mūtābitis

• mūtābimus

• mūtābit

• mūtābō

Answer explanation

mutate as a verb in Englsih - to change state or condition, undergo change, is only from 1818, back-formation from mutation!

How would we translate this phrase in English into just one Latin verb?

I shall set free

• līberābunt

• līberābitis

• līberābimus

• līberābis

• līberābō

Answer explanation

to liberate - to set free, release from restraint or bondage - is from the 1620s, from Latin liberatus, past participle of liberare "to set free" (source also of Spanish librar, French livrer), from liber "free, not a slave, unrestricted".