Imperfect tense
laudabam
What is I was praising?
arabo
What is I will plow?
juvas
What is you help?
The stem vowel for the first conjugation.
What is a?
What is conjugations?
The two helping verbs used to translate the imperfect tense.
What is was and were?
The helping verb used to translate the future tense.
What is will?
The Latin for "ya'll are working".
What is laboratis?
The name of the second principal part.
What is the infinitive?
In English, infinitives are translated with this word.
What is "to"?
The tense sign for the imperfect tense.
What is ba?
The tense sign for the future tense.
What is bi?
The Latin for I do not greet.
What is non saluto?
All first conjugation verbs end in this in the infinitive.
What is -are?
The two basic parts of a sentence.
What are the subject and verb?
The Latin for "I was wishing to help".
What is "Optabam juvare"?
The Latin for "They will wish to fight".
What is "Optabunt pugnare"?
Three ways to translate "pugnant".
What is they fight, they are fighting, and they do fight?
These provide the stems needed to conjugate a verb in all its tenses.
What are principal parts?
The official way to find the present stem.
What is to drop "re" from the infinitive?
The Latin for "I was praying and you were telling".
What is orabam et narrabas?
The Latin for "she will walk and he will swim".
What is ambulabit et natabit?
The Latin for she is not working and ya'll are plowing.
What is "Non laborat et aratis"?
The six Latin verb tenses.
What are present, imperfect, future, perfect, pluperfect, future perfect?
The six attributes of a verb.
What is conjugation, person, number, tense, voice, mood?