To form the future tense for third conjugation verbs remove the ‘ -ere’ from the infinitive form of the verb to get the stem and add the relevant ending. The first person singular uses ‘a-’ instead of ‘e-’, and the present tense ending of ‘-o’ changes to ‘-m’. The difference is that they are preceded by ‘ e-’. In the future simple tense, the endings for third and fourth conjugation verbs are the same as those in the present. The stem for do, dare, dedi, datum (1) is da- Latin To form the future tense for first and second conjugation verbs, remove ‘ -re’ from the end of the infinitive form of the verb to get the stem and then add the relevant ending above. The difference is that they are preceded by ‘ b-’ in the first person singular, ‘ bu-’ in the third person plural and ‘ bi-’ for the remaining persons. In the future simple tense, the endings for first and second conjugation verbs are the same as those in the present. In each conjugation, the verbs share the same endings:Īn example of a first conjugation verb is: confirmo, confirmare, confirmavi, confirmatum (1) – to confirm.Īn example of a second conjugation verb is: habeo, habere, habui, habitum (2) – to haveĪn example of a third conjugation verb is: duco, ducere, duxi, ductum (3) – to leadĪn example of a fourth conjugation verb is: audio, audire, audivi, auditum (4) – to hear First and second conjugation verbs Remember, Latin verbs are divided into four groups, or conjugations. In Latin, just as with the present and past tenses, we need to know the conjugation a verb belongs to in order to make a future tense. In English, we use ‘will’ to make this tense.Įgo Lucie messuagium dabo – I will give a messuage to Lucy In order to talk about events that we expect to take place in the future we use the future simple tense. So far we have looked at verbs in the present tense and verbs in the past tenses.
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