Satyricon!

Advanced Latin (201, 301, 401)

Grammar Review

Formation of the present active system

• Paradigm verbs
  • negö, äre, ävï, ätus
  • appäreö, ëre, uï, itürus
    
    
• The present active system is formed by adding tense endings and markers to the present stem. The present stem is obtained by dropping the "re" ending from the present active infinitive, the second principle part. For our paradigm verbs, those stems are negä and appärë.
  
  
• The present, future and imperfect tenses comprise the present system, because all forms of these verbs are built upon the present stem.
  
  
• Rules of Formation:
  • present: stem + present system endings
  • future: stem + tense marker ["bi"] + present system endings
  • imperfect: stem + tense marker ["bä"] + present system endings