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New First Steps in Latin provides a basic introduction for students new to Latin. The text offers first-year instruction on Latin verbs, nouns, adjectives, and prepositions. This includes verbal conjugations 1–4, the active and passive voice in verbs, noun declensions 1–5, and simple sentences. The substantial appendix includes practice readings, a grammatical catechism, sentence diagramming,...

Perfect System Active Voice The PERFECT tense expresses completed action in past time. The PERFECT STEM is found by removing the final -ī from the third principal part: AMĀVī. AMĀVĪ -Ī AMĀV- The perfect tense is formed by adding the perfect endings to the perfect stem. PERFECT TENSE Singular perfect endings perfect stem + ending 1st person -ī → amāvī I loved, - have loved, - did love 2nd person -istī → amāvistī you loved, - have loved, - did love 3rd person
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