2. The Perfect Tense

3. The perfect tense: l Describes action that was completed in the past l Describes action done at a specific time in the past l Is often translated with the helping verbs “has” “have” or “did”

4. The perfect tense is expressed in Latin by a set of special endings!

5. Perfect tense endings lili l isti l it l imus l istis l erunt

6. These endings are used with verbs of all four conjugations

7. The first conjugation: l paravi l paravisti l paravit l paravimus l paravistis l paraverunt

8. The second conjugation l docui l docuisti l docuit l docuimus l docuisti l docuerunt

9. The third conjugation l duxi l duxisti l duxit l duximus l duxistis l duxerunt

10. The fourth conjugation l audivi l audivisti l audivit l audivimus l audivistis l audiverunt

11. finis