Year 7

Perfect tense: u x s stems or 2nd and 3rd conjugation

Year 7

Perfect tense: u x s stems or 2nd and 3rd conjugation

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Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will look at three new stems for the perfect tense.
  2. Perfect tense 2nd and 3rd conjugation (-u-, -x-, -s- stems)

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7 Questions

Q1.
What does the following Latin noun mean: deus?
dog
Correct answer: god
ground, land
wife
Q2.
What does the following Latin noun mean: terra?
dog
god
Correct answer: ground, land
wife
Q3.
What does the following Latin noun mean: uxor?
dog
god
ground, land
Correct answer: wife
Q4.
What does 'lacrimavit' mean?
Correct answer: she cried
she was crying
Q5.
What does 'timebat' mean?
she feared
Correct answer: she was afraid/fearing
Q6.
What is the relationship between Orpheus and Eurydice?
human and god
Correct answer: husband and wife
Q7.
What happened to Orpheus and Eurydice in the Underworld?
Orpheus and Eurydice left together.
Correct answer: Orpheus turned around to look at Eurydice at the last moment.
Pluto said Orpheus could not take his wife back.

9 Questions

Q1.
1. Which of these defines the imperfect tense?
Action happening now
Completed action in the past
Correct answer: Unfinished or repeated action in the past
Q2.
2. How do you translate Latin verbs which end with '-ba-'?
-ed
Correct answer: was/were
Q3.
3. What are the four stems for the perfect tense?
q u x s
v i x s
v u x p
Correct answer: v u x s
Q4.
4. How do you translate Latin verbs with these endings?
Correct answer: -ed
was/were
Q5.
5. What does 'dixi' mean?
Correct answer: I said.
I was saying.
Q6.
6. What does 'habui' mean?
Correct answer: I had.
I was having.
Q7.
7. What is the Latin for 'I ate'?
consumebam.
consumo.
Correct answer: consumpsi.
Q8.
8. Which of these gives the correct sequence and endings for the perfect tense.
i, is, t, imus, itis, int
Correct answer: i, isti, it, imus, istis, erunt
o, s, t, mus, tis, nt
Q9.
9. Pick TWO answers which together give the correct translation of scripserunt.
He, she, it
Correct answer: They
was/were writing
write
Correct answer: wrote