Review: verbs
Nota Bene
Be sure you have your github password and username with you for Wednesday's class: we'll take some time to set up a repository for your Latin 102 course material, and add a file for Friday's quiz 1.
1. Common compound verbs
The following eleven verbs are verb common in all Latin texts. In addition, many compounds are built on them: if you learn these verbs thoroughly, you will recognize a very large number of Latin verbs.
Using this review list, memorize the four principal parts for each verb:
- capio
- do
- duco
- eo
- facio
- fero
- mitto
- pono
- sum
- venio
- volo
Two of the compounds formed from the irregular verbs sum (“to be”) and volo (“to wish”) may seem less obvious. Possum “to be able” is from pot + sum; nolo “not to wish, to be unwilling” is from non volo. If you know the forms of possum and volo, you will have no trouble recognizing forms of possum and nolo.
Practice
- Click Select a verb to select a question at random.
- Check Show answer to see its principal parts
Part 2: other common verbs
Each of these verbs appears frequently in Hyginus (48 or more times!) If you recognize their principal parts automatically, you will read the Fabulae much more easily.
- First conjugation: appello
- Second conjugation: habeo, video, respondeo, jubeo
- Third conjugation: peto, nascor, pario
- Fourth conjugation: audio
Practice
- Click Select a verb to select a question at random.
- Check Show answer to see its principal parts