The Perfect Tense

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”

The perfect tense is

expressed in Latin by a set of special endings!

Perfect tense endings

i

isti

it

imus

istis

erunt

These endings are used with

verbs of all four conjugations

The first conjugation:

paravi

paravisti

paravit

paravimus

paravistis

paraverunt

The second conjugation

docui

docuisti

docuit

docuimus

docuisti

docuerunt

The third conjugation

duxi

duxisti

duxit

duximus

duxistis

duxerunt

The fourth conjugation

audivi

audivisti

audivit

audivimus

audivistis

audiverunt

finis