§207. Impersonal Verbs
Many verbs, from their meaning, appear only in the third person singular, the infinitive, and the gerund. These are called Impersonal Verbs, as having no personal subject.1 The passive of many intransitive verbs is used in the same way.
| CONJ. I | II | III | IV | PASS. CONJ. I |
| it is plain | it is allowed | it chances | it results | it is fought |
| cōnstat | licet | accidit | ēvenit | pūgnātur |
| cōnstābat | licēbat | accidēbat | ēveniēbat | pūgnābātur |
| cōnstābit | licēbit | accidet | ēveniet | pūgnābitur |
| cōnstitit | licuit, -itum est | accidit | ēvēnit | pūgnātum est |
| cōnstiterat | licuerat | acciderat | ēvēnerat | pūgnātum erat |
| cōnstiterit | licuerit | acciderit | ēvēnerit | pūgnātum erit |
| cōnstet | liceat | accidat | ēveniat | pūgnētur |
| cōnstāret | licēret | accideret | ēvenīret | pūgnārētur |
| cōnstiterit | licuerit | acciderit | ēvēnerit | pūgnātum sit |
| cōnstitisset | licuisset | accidisset | ēvēnisset | pūgnātum esset |
| cōnstāre | licēre | accidĕre | ēvenīre | pūgnārī |
| cōnstitisse | licuisse | accidisse | ēvēnisse | pūgnātum esse |
| -stātūrum esse | -itūrum esse | ---- | -tūrum esse | pūgnātum īrī |
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.