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Latin from scratch course › #11: Subjunctive › #11.24: Perfect

Latin from scratch #11.24: The active subjunctive perfect tense

In the twenty-fourth class of the Latin from Scratch course, we’ll study the perfect past tense in the subjunctive mood (active voice). This one might be the least common tense in the subjunctive.

I explain everything in the following video (⏳ 03m 43s ⌛):

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Morphology of the Latin perfect subjunctive

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All the conjugations work in the same way:

  1. perfect stem
  2. perfect subjunctive morpheme ĕrī
  3. active endings

The result is the following table:

1st conjugation2nd conjugation3rd conjugationmixed conjugation4th conjugation
amaverim
amaveris
amaverit
amaverimus
amaveritis
amaverint
monuerim
monueris
monuerit
monuerimus
monueritis
monuerint
duxerim
duxeris
duxerit
duxerimus
duxeritis
duxerint
ceperim
ceperis
ceperit
ceperimus
ceperitis
ceperint
audiverim
audiveris
audiverit
audiverimus
audiveritis
audiverint

Be careful: in the perfect subjunctive we have the normal active endings, not the special perfect endings, which are specific to the perfect indicative.

Another precaution: the perfect subjunctive is almost the same as the perfect future indicative, except for the 1st person singular.

Perfect subjunctive of the verb sum

Nothing new here. Just remember that the perfect stem is fu‑.

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fuerim
fueris
fuerit
fuerimus
fueritis
fuerint

Even though we are in the module for the subjunctive mood, it is appropriate to study next the perfect future indicative (the last tense in this mood), so we can see the similarity (and difference) with the perfect subjunctive.

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  1. Quick start
  2. Introduction
  3. Cases and their functions
  4. The five declensions
  5. First declension
  6. Verbal conjugation
  7. Present tense
  8. Second declension
  9. 2-1-2 adjectives
  10. Imperfect past tense
  11. Future tense
  12. Third declension nouns
  13. Third declension adjectives
  14. Perfect past tense
  15. Adverbials of place
  16. Fourth declension
  17. Fifth declension
  18. Pluperfect tense
  19. Possessives
  20. Personal pronouns
  21. Apposition
  22. Predicative complement
  23. Present subjunctive
  24. Imperfect subjunctive
  25. Perfect subjunctive
  26. Perfect future indicative
  27. Pluperfect subjunctive
  28. Syntax of cum
  29. Syntax of ut & ne
  30. Comparison of adjectives
  31. Superlative adjectives
  32. Adverbs from adjectives
  33. Demonstratives
  34. Relative clauses
  35. Passive voice
  36. Deponent verbs
  37. Relative time
  38. Participles: morphology
  39. Participles: syntax
  40. Infinitives
  41. Compounds of sum
  42. Irregular verbs
  43. Imperative

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