Transcript Lesson XXVI Imperfect Tense

Lesson 26
Imperfect Tense
Oct. 27-31, 2014
Past Tenses
• So far, we have learned two types of past
tenses in Latin: perfect and imperfect.
• Although both are past tense, they express
different shades of the past.
Review: Perfect Tense
• The perfect tense expresses past action
completed.
• It is formed from the 3rd principal part of the
verb.
• It uses these endings:
–i
– isti
– it
-imus
-istis
-erunt
Review: Perfect Tense
• rego, regere, rexi, rectus: rule
• REXI minus –i ==== REX• rexi
• rexisti
• rexit
reximus
rexistis
rexerunt
Review: Perfect Tense
• Perfect tense can be translated 3 ways:
– I verbed
– I did verb
– I have verbed
Imperfect Tense
• Imperfect tense is past tense that expresses
action occurring over a period of time.
• The action is repeated, customary, or continuous.
• It is formed using the 2nd principal part of the
verb.
• Its endings are:
– bam
– bas
– bat
bamus
batis
bant
Imperfect Tense
• porto, portare, portavi, portatus: carry
• PORTARE minus RE === PORTA• portabam
• portabas
• portabat
-BA! -BA!
portabamus
portabatis
portabant
Imperfect Tense
• Imperfect tense can be translated 5 ways:
– I was verbing
– I used to verb
– I kept on verbing
– I verbed
– I would (ordinarily, usually) verb
Perfect vs. Imperfect Tense
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You used to send money.
He was holding the sign.
He has held the sign.
We have not heard the
report.
We kept on hearing the
report.
We were beginning to yield.
They would not watch the
fight.
They did not watch the
fight.
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Imperfect
Imperfect
Perfect
Perfect
• Imperfect
• Imperfect
• Imperfect
• Perfect
Imperfect Tense of “Sum”
• The verb “sum” (to be) has its own forms for
imperfect tense.
• eram (I was, used to be) eramus (we were, used to be)
• eras (you were, used to be) eratis (you were, used to be)
• erat (h/s/i was, used to be) erant (they were, used to be)
Practice Sentences: Imperfect and
Perfect Tenses (turn in Latin + English)
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Multosne libros legistis?
Puellae puerique litteras scribebant.
In casam veniebam; ibi amicum meum vidi.
Marcus amicum vocabat, sed amicus non audivit.
Multos equos in viis videbamus, sed nunc ubi
sunt equi?
• Multi viri in agris habitabant, sed nunc ad oppida
migraverunt.