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
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