Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Level 3; deponent verbs (5)(ii); imperfect and future tenses; 3rd, 3-iō, 4th conjugations

 [1] imperfect tense: again, the tense markers are the same for all three conjugations i.e. -ba- / -bā-, the only difference being in the stem vowels:

3rd conjugation: revertor, revert¦ī, reversus sum [3/dep]: return

  • revert¦ē¦ba¦r, revert¦ē¦¦ris etc. │ I was returning / used to return, you (sg.) were returning etc.

3rd-iō conjugation: egredior, egredī, egressus sum [3-iō/dep]: go out

  • egred¦¦ba¦r, egred¦¦¦ris etc. │I was going out, you (sg.) were going out etc.

4th conjugation: mentior, mentī¦rī, mentitus sum [4/dep]: lie; deceive

  • ment¦¦ba¦r, ment¦¦¦ris │I was lying; I used to deceive; you (sg.) were lying etc.

[2] future tense

[i] 3rd conjugation: -a- / -ē[e]-

revertar: I shall return

revertēris: you (sg.) will return

revertētur: he/she/it will return

revertēmur: we will return

revertēminī: you (pl.) will return

revertentur: they will return

[ii] 3rd-iō conugation: -ia- / -iē[e]-

ēgrediar: I shall go out

ēgredris: you (sg.) will go out

ēgrediētur: he/she/it will go out

ēgrediēmur: we will go out

ēgrediēminī: you (pl.) will go out

ēgredientur: they will go out

[iii] 4th conjugation: -ia- / -iē[e]-

mentiar: I shall lie / deceive

mentris: you (sg.) will lie

mentiētur: he/she/it will lie

mentiēmur: we will lie

mentiēminī: you (pl.) will lie

mentientur: they will lie