1. Participles Lesson 57 pp
2012/2013

2. What are participles?
Participles are adjectives that are made from verbs.
“Verbal adjectives.”
The running man. (run)
The lost money. (lose)
The girl about to jump. (jump)  Latin uses 1 word here instead of 3!

3. You already know… PPP’s: Perfect Passive Participles
The 4th principal part of a verb.
Translated “having been verbed” or “verbed”
amitto, amittere, amisi, amissus: lose
amissus: having been lost, “lost”
Pecunia amissa: the lost money

4. Participle Tenses and Voices
Present Active Participle: verbing
Perfect Passive Participle: having been verbed
Future Active Participle: about to verb

5. Participle chart Present Active Voice -ns, -ntis Passive Voice X
Present stem (drop the –re) then add:
-ns, -ntis
(verbing)
Passive Voice X
Perfect
the 4th principle part of the verb ending in –us, -a, -um
(verbed, having been verbed)
Future
4th principal part minus the –us, then add –urus/-ura/-urum
(about to verb)
TBL…

6. Participle chart amo, amare, amavi, amatus: love Present Active Voice
amans, amantis
(loving)
Passive Voice X
Perfect
amatus, -a, -um
(loved, having been loved)
Future
amaturus, -a, -um
(about to love)
TBL…

7. Declining Participles
Participles that end in –us/-a/-um use the same old 1st and 2nd declension charts you’ve known and loved since Latin I. 
M F N
-us -i a ae um -a
-i -orum -ae arum i orum
-o -is ae is o is
-um -os am as um -a
-o -is ā is o is

8. Declining Participles
Present active participles (-ns, -ntis) decline like 3rd declension i-stem nouns.
M/F Neuter
amans amantes amans amantia
amantis amantium amantis amantium
amanti amantibus amanti amantibus
amantem amantes amans amantia
amante amantibus amanti amantibus

9. Practicing Participles
Form and translate the present active, perfect passive, and future active participles of:
voco, vocare, vocavi, vocatus: call
moneo, monere, monui, monitus: warn
dico, dicere, dixi, dictus: speak
*facio, facere, feci, factus: make
*munio, munire, munivi, munitus: fortify
*facio and munio use –iens, -ientis instead of –ns, -ntis for their present active forms