The Perfect Tense

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The Perfect Tense
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The perfect tense

• Describes action that was completed in the past
• Describes action done at a specific time in the
  past
• Is often translated with the helping verbs has
  have or did

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The perfect tense is expressed in Latin by a set
of special endings!
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Perfect tense endings

• i
• isti
• it

• imus
• istis
• erunt

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These endings are used with verbs of all four
conjugations
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The first conjugation

• paravi
• paravisti
• paravit

• paravimus
• paravistis
• paraverunt

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The second conjugation

• docui
• docuisti
• docuit

• docuimus
• docuistis
• docuerunt

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The third conjugation

• duxi
• duxisti
• duxit

• duximus
• duxistis
• duxerunt

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The fourth conjugation

• audivi
• audivisti
• audivit

• audivimus
• audivistis
• audiverunt

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