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I have an intro portion where I talk about my current life status and air some grievances that have been ruminating in my mind. I hope you appreciate the honesty because it's for me, anyways. Just slightly dinged up after being hit by a car yesterday while biking around...
There are two important rules to remember here:
Compared to the present passive, the perfect passive is remarkably straightforward. It involves only two verb elements: the fourth principal part of the verb, plus a form of esse (“to be”).
Therefore, forming a perfect passive verb is quite simple: See, you take the:
An example of a Latin verb, amo, conjugated in the perfect passive:
amatus, -a, -um sum; “I have been loved,”
amatus, -a, -um es; “you have been loved”
amatus, -a, -um est; “he/she/it has been loved”
amati, -ae, -a sumus; “we have been loved,”
amati, -ae, -a estis; “y’all have been loved”
amati, -ae, -a sunt; “they have been loved”
Note: Remember to use -us, -a, -um in the singular in accordance with the gender of the subject, or in the plural, -i, -ae, -a. The closest translation in English to the Latin perfect passive is either:
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I have an intro portion where I talk about my current life status and air some grievances that have been ruminating in my mind. I hope you appreciate the honesty because it's for me, anyways. Just slightly dinged up after being hit by a car yesterday while biking around...
There are two important rules to remember here:
Compared to the present passive, the perfect passive is remarkably straightforward. It involves only two verb elements: the fourth principal part of the verb, plus a form of esse (“to be”).
Therefore, forming a perfect passive verb is quite simple: See, you take the:
An example of a Latin verb, amo, conjugated in the perfect passive:
amatus, -a, -um sum; “I have been loved,”
amatus, -a, -um es; “you have been loved”
amatus, -a, -um est; “he/she/it has been loved”
amati, -ae, -a sumus; “we have been loved,”
amati, -ae, -a estis; “y’all have been loved”
amati, -ae, -a sunt; “they have been loved”
Note: Remember to use -us, -a, -um in the singular in accordance with the gender of the subject, or in the plural, -i, -ae, -a. The closest translation in English to the Latin perfect passive is either:
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