Chapter 32: The Perfect Passive System
The perfect passive tenses are formed by combining the perfect participle (e.g. amatus, -a, -um: loved) with the auxiliary verb esse: to be. So, amata sum: I have been loved is the perfect passive (participle agrees with subject, here 'I' is a woman). Amatus eram: I had been loved is the pluperfect ('I' is a man here). Amati erimus: we will have been loved is the future perfect ('we' are men or a mixed group).
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