Talk:Latin/Lesson 8-Imperfect and Future

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If you already have an understanding of 4 conjugations, this page's presentation beyond the 1st and 2nd conjugation imperfects may confuse you. It certainly will not help a Latin student that does not understand advanced grammar. (Our contributor laid out a unique teaching methedology, which I agree with, and will try to see to its completion, but right now it would only confuse and not teach.)

Terms necessary to define (which are not defined) are: (Could these two be part of the natural variations in the future?)
 * long I conjugation (ambigious--could refer to either 4th conjugation or prounciation--I really don't know.)
 * short I conjugation-- probably refers to 3rd and 4th -io that does not have a macron over the i, which isn't really a rule that can be derrived or explained easily in this chapter because that is a function of the rhythmical stresses (or accent) of the word.
 * consonatic conjugation (part of the 'i-stem' rule--yet to be defined.)

It's probably much much simpler than this, but without explanation, I'm a little lost.

User:Smkatz 14:07, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I decided to remove this paragraph, until the page is corrected. Implying that the -e- change happens in the imperfect seems factually incorrect.

However, eventually you'll have to add an e before the ba (as in capi-ebam (which means I captured or I caught)) (Wikipedians are not presently agreed on a common translation.) But this is only necessary in the long I-conjugation [fourth--as in venire?], the short I-conjugation and the consonantic conjugation (also called the io rule--a variation that happens in the future with 3rd (and 4th?) conjugation verbs).

Smkatz 14:19, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)