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

Lesson details

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