Latin/Infinitives Lesson 2

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We continue with Latin sentences using infinitives this week. As we saw last time, many Latin verbs require a complementary infinitive to make sense. This time, we’ll continue with practice, remembering that the infinitive is the 2nd principal part in the vocabulary listings. The infinitive endings for regular verbs in the 4 conjugations look like this: “are, ēre, ere, ire” (portare, monēre, mittere, audire). Deponent verbs have infinitive endings that look like
 * ārī, ērī, ī, īrī
 * hortārī, verērī, sequī, orīrī

These same endings will be typical of the present passive infinitive, if/when we eventually get to it. The 3rd conjugation form, with no “r” in it, is the hardest to remember. This lesson we’re also putting in some new verbs that we somehow overlooked in all our previous verb lessons.

Practice
We’ll have more infinitives next time. Valēte et habēte bonam fortūnam!