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§160. Tenses of the Finite Verb

The Tenses of the Indicative have, in general, the same meaning as the corresponding tenses in English:—

a. Of continued action,

  • 1. PRESENT: scrībō, I write, I am writing, I do write.
  • 2. IMPERFECT: scrībēbam, I wrote, I was writing, I did write.
  • 3. FUTURE: scrībam, I shall write.

b. Of completed action,

  • 4. PERFECT: scrīpsī, I have written, I wrote.
  • 5. PLUPERFECT: scrīpseram, I had written.
  • 6. FUTURE PERFECT: scrīpserō, I shall have written.

J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.