Latin/Future Tense Lesson 2

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Future tense, third and fourth conjugation
Today’s lesson continues the future tense in Latin. As we saw last lesson, 1st and 2nd conjugation verbs use the endings
 * bō, bis, bit, bimus, bitis, bunt to form the future tense
 * (with the help of the connecting vowel ā for 1st conjugation, ē for 2nd).

This week we’ll turn to the forms used for the 3rd and 4th conjugations:

Most irregular verbs follow the pattern of 3rd/4th conjugation verbs, except for compounds of sum which follow that pattern — erō, eris, erit, erimus, eritis, erunt — and compounds of eō: ībō, ībis, ībit, ībimus, ībitis, ībunt. We’ll introduce a few of these in this lesson and a few in the next.

Practice
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