It will be introduced in the second year of Latin It will become the focus of the third year of Latin. IMPERATIVE MOOD Imperatives in two tenses and two voices each Present Tense Active Voice: this.” “Do Passive Voice: influenced.” “Be Future Tense: Active Voice: do this.” or shalt do will “You “Thou this.” Passive Voice: be lead.” will “You Forming the Present Active Imperative in To conjugate any verb’s present active imperative, you need to follow a few simple steps: STEP #1: Start with the verb in its 2nd principal part. SAMPLE DICTIONARY ENTRY: quae·rō, -sīvī or -siī, sītus, to look for, search for; tr to try to get quaerō is the 1st principal part quae- + -rere = the 2nd principal quarere, part quae- + -sīvī (or -siī) = quaesīvī (or quaesiī), the 3rd principal part quae- + -sītus = quaesītus, the 4th principal part STEP #2: Remove the from the verb’s second –re principal part You memorized this for conjugating: “formula” (2nd principal part) (-re) = present stem of the –– verb. The present stem in most cases is the same as the present active imperative form. EXAMPLES: 1st conjugation: (amāre) (-re) = amā ––
It will be introduced in the second year of Latin It will become the focus of the third year of Latin. IMPERATIVE MOOD Imperatives in two tenses and two voices each Present Tense Active Voice: “Do this.” Passive Voice: “Be influenced.” Future Tense: Active Voice: “You will do this.” or “Thou shalt do this.” Passive Voice: “You will be lead.” Forming the Present Active Imperative in To conjugate any verb’s present active imperative, you need to follow a few simple steps: STEP #1: Start with the verb in its 2nd principal part. SAMPLE DICTIONARY ENTRY: quae·rō, -sīvī or -siī, sītus, tr to look for, search for; to try to get quaerō is the 1st principal part quae- + -rere = quarere, the 2nd principal part quae- + -sīvī (or -siī) = quaesīvī (or quaesiī), the 3rd principal part quae- + -sītus = quaesītus, the 4th principal part STEP #2: Remove the –re from the verb’s second principal part You memorized this “formula” for conjugating: (2nd principal part) –– (-re) = present stem of the verb. The present stem in most cases is the same as the present active imperative form. EXAMPLES: 1st conjugation: (amāre) –– (-re) = amā
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