How do you translate the 4th principal part of a latin verb?

Answer 1

When you look up a verb in a Latin dictionary, it will almost always give three or four words. These are the principal parts. For example, the principal parts of 'to love/like' are amo, amare, amavi, amatus.

The first part is the singular, 1st person, present, active, indicative form of the verb. In the case of 'to like', this is amo, which means 'I like'.

The second part is the present, active infintive. amare = 'to like'.

The third part is the 1st person, singular, perfect, active, indicative form. amavi = 'I liked/I have liked'.

The final part, which not all verbs have, is the masculine singular perfect passive participle. amatus = 'having been liked'. Usually, this can be translated into more natural-sounding English when in a sentence. Intransitive verbs (ones without a direct object, such as 'to walk' or 'to run', have no fourth part. (Some dictionaries give a different form, the supine, as the fourth principal part. This is a distinction without much of a difference, since the supine is identical to the participle except that it ends in -um instead of -us.)

In deponent verbs (verbs which are always formed in the passive voice, but which have an active meaning, such as conor, conari, conatus sum, 'to try', only ever have three parts, which are the same as the first three parts of a normal verb. by removing sum from the third part, we can find the perfect active participle (only deponent verbs have perfect active participles instead of perfect passive participles); in this case, conatus, 'having tried'.

Answer 2

The third principal part of a Latin verb is the first-person perfect indicative. There are two main translations into English: the past tense "I ed", and the present perfect "I have ed". So, for example, the word amavi (the third principal part of amo, amare, amavi, amatus, "to love") is:

• I loved
• I have loved

Answer 3

The second principal part, known as the infinitive, is generally translated by the English infinitive ("to "). In some cases a translation with the gerund ("ing") or other noun may be preferred. For example, Horace's famous sentence Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori ("mori" being the infinitive of the verb "to die") could be translated any of these ways:

"To die for one's country is pleasant and proper."

"Dying for one's country is pleasant and proper."

"Death for one's country is pleasant and proper."

Answer 4

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Conjugating verbs in Latin is a very very complex subject. To start off there are six different endings for the word to signify the meaning of who is doing it.

I _________We

You_______ You All

He/She/It __They

Lets start out with an example. The word "amo" means to like or love. Lets start out with the Present tense conjugation.

I like---Amo ___________We like---Amamus

You like---Amas ________You all like---Amatis

He/She/It likes---Amat ___They like---Amant

As you should have noticed above I underlined the endings. Those endings stay the same for every first conjugation verb. No matter what conjugation you are in the

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I __________We

You ________You All

He/She/It ____They

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never changes. The reason Latin is such a hard language is because that is just one conjugation in the first conjugation. There are many more just in the first conjugation. For example there is the imperfect tense, the future tense, the perfect tense, the pluperperfect tense, and the future perfect tense. THAT'S JUST FOR THE 1ST CONJUGATION. There are far over 4 conjugations in Latin.

So when we look at this again this is the present tense in the first conjugation. So in theory you could call it a sub-division.

I like---Amo __________We like---Amamus

You like---Amas _______You all like---Amatis

He/She/It likes---Amat __They like---Amant

Hope I could help!!

Answer 5

Conjugation, person, number, tense, voice and mood.

Answer 6

"Having been 'verb'ed."