Tria Tempora Verborum

Match the following verb tenses to their translations.

• I verb

• present

• I was verbing

• perfect

• I have verbed

• imperfect

Match the verb conjugations to their infinitive endings.

• its own thing

• 4th

• -īre

• 2nd

• -ere

• sum

• -āre

• 1st

• -ēre

• 3rd

Which of the following are legitimate ways to translate the present tense?

• I verb, you verb, he/she/it verbs . . .

• I am verbing, you are verbing, he/she/it is verbing . . .

• I do verb, you do verb, he/she/it does verb . . .

• I will verb, you will verb, he/she/it will verb . . .

• I verbed, you verbed, he/she/it verbed . . .

Which of the following are legitimate ways to translate the perfect tense?

• I began to verb, you began to verb, he/she/it began to verb . . .

• I used to verb, you used to verb, he/she/it used to verb . . .

• I have verbed, you have verbed, he/she/it has verbed . . .

• I was verbing, you were verbing, he/she/it was verbing . . .

• I verbed, you verbed, he/she/it verbed . . .

Which of the following are legitimate ways to translate the imperfect tense?

• I began to verb, you began to verb, he/she/it began to verb . . .

• I used to verb, you used to verb, he/she/it used to verb . . .

• I have verbed, you have verbed, he/she/it has verbed . . .

• I was verbing, you were verbing, he/she/it was verbing . . .

• I will verb, you will verb, he/she/it will verb . . .

In Latin, imperfect does not mean "flawed." It means . . .

To form the imperfect tense, we need to have the verb's ​ (a)   stem.

• present
• perfect
• future

For the present stem, we start with the ​ (a)   principal part.

• second
• first
• third
• fourth

Real quick: the second principal part is also known by another name. Which is it?

(Hint: it means "to verb"!)

• imperative

• inchoative

• iterative

• infinitive

• intensive

To form the present stem, we take the second principal part and cut off which two letters?