§163. Personal Endings
Verbs have regular terminations1 for each of the three Persons, both singular and plural, active and passive.2 These are:
| ACTIVE | PASSIVE | |||
| SINGULAR | ||||
| 1. -m (-ō): | am-ō, I love. | -r (-or): | amo -r, I am loved. | |
| 2. -s: | amā -s, thou lovest. | -ris (-re): | amā -ris, thou art loved. | |
| 3. -t: | ama -t, he loves. | -tur: | amā -tur, he is loved. | |
| PLURAL | ||||
| 1. -mus: | amā -mus, we love. | -mur: | amā -mur, we are loved. | |
| 2. -tis: | amā -tis, you love. | -minī: | amā -minī, you are loved. | |
| 3. -nt: | ama -nt, they love. | -ntur: | ama -ntur, they are loved. |
a. The Perfect Indicative active has the special terminations3:—
| SING. | 1. -ī: | amāv-ī, I loved. |
| 2. -is-tī | amāv-is-tī, thou lovedst. | |
| 3. -i-t: | amāv-i-t, he loved. | |
| PLUR. | 1. -i-mus: | amāv-i-mus, we loved. |
| 2. -is-tis: | amāv-is-tis, you loved. | |
| 3. -ērunt (-ēre): | amāv-ērunt (-ēre), they loved. |
b. The Imperative has the following terminations:—
| PRESENT ACTIVE | ||||
| Singular | Plural | |||
| 2. —: | amā, love thou. | -te: | amā -te, love ye. | |
| FUTURE ACTIVE | ||||
| 2. -tō: | amā-tō, thou shalt love. | -tōte: | amā -tōte, ye shall love. | |
| 3. -tō: | amā-tō, he shall love. | -ntō: | ama -ntō, they shall love. |
| Singular | PRESENT PASSIVE | Plurai | ||
| 2. -re: | amā -re, be thou loved. | -minī: | amā -minī, be ye loved. | |
| FUTURE PASSIVE | ||||
| 2. -tor: | amā -tor, thou shalt be loved. | ---- | ---- | |
| 3. -tor: | amā -tor, he shall be loved. | -ntor: | ama -ntor, they shall be loved. |
Forms of the Verb
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.