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Re: latin verb examples and tense meanings

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Friday, January 14, 2000, 21:15
Raymond Brown wrote:

> So do I. The masc. of the ppp is possible only if the verb is transitive. > What happened with intransitives?
I simply can't remember (too much time has passed, and many a supine have I seen since then). I remember that the principal parts of "sum" as "sum, esse, fui, futurus", but there is neither ppp or supine of "sum" anyway, no? Then there's "memini, meminisse, ---, ---", which is only perfectum. And finally my father's favorite verbs: "pigo, pigere, squili, gruntum" and "flio, flire, itci, scratcium" (works best with the English pronunciation, which he was learning in 1916 or thereabouts).
> And, of course, intransitive verbs may have future active participles, and > these are formed from the same base as the ppp and the supine.
Maybe that's what I learned for all intransitive verbs, not just "sum"? I just can't remember. ObApology: Sorry for making public what was meant to be a private response to Roland: a slip of the finger. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@...> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)