GERUNDIVE
(a.k.a. FUTURE PASSIVE PARTICIPLE)
rogandus, -a,
-urn
rnonendus, -a, ·urn dicendus, -a,
-urn
faciendus,
-a
, -
urn
audiendus, -a, -
urn
raga
,
ragiire
,
ragiivi
,
rogiitum
to ask; maneo,
manere,
manui, manitum to warn;
dico,
dicere
, dixi, dictum
to
say; facio,
facere
feci, factum
to
do, make;
audio,
audire,
audivi,
auditum
to
hear.
Alia
The other classical parts
of
speech-Adverbia,
Praepositiones,
Conjunctiones, and Inte1jectiones have very little to say for them-
selves, really, that hasn't already been said as plainly as the surviving
grammarians could possibly have said
it
,
or
at
least
halle,
if
it comes
to
that. Try the index.
Anomaliae
When
grammarians say,
as
they have for at least two millennia,
that language
is
"regular," that
is
, that you can make up a finite
number
of
rules that will describe how it all works, they don't mean
this to be taken absolutely literally. Or they shouldn't, anyway,
because we all know better: some anomalies, some exceptions
to
the rules, are bound
to
come forward.
Latin, like all
other
languages in robust health, has its anomalies
and irregularities. The most important inhabit the verb system.
We
will hit the high points here, namely, the verbs
esse
to
be,
posse
to
be able,
ire
to
go,
velie
to want, and
nolle
to not want. The other
ringleaders
(esse
to eat,
ferre
to
bear, and fieri
to
become, be made)
are presented in suffici
ent
numbers when they appear in the text
to exempt them from repetition here.
Because
esse
,
posse
,
ire
,
velie
, and
nolle
are in essence
active-you
can'
t,
for example, be been able without severe
strain-we
will give
only their active forms, those bemg
all
there are besides. (This rule
too has a minor exception: there
is
a passive-looking infinitive
in
to the verb eo,
ire
to
go, but let us leave sleeping dogs supine.) With
no further ado:
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