| A | B |
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| Latin verbs | have 6 tenses |
| The tense | tells the TIME of the verb |
| Latin Verb Number | There are 2 numbers: singular and plural |
| Verb Persons | There are 3 persons, singular and plural |
| 1st/ First person | I, We |
| 2nd/ second person | You, sing; You, plural/ You all |
| 3rd/ third person | he, she, it, They |
| Conjugations | four groups of regular verbs |
| To conjugate a verb | means to give all the 3 persons, singular and plural |
| First principal part of a verb | is the present tense first person singular |
| The first principal part of most verbs | ends in -O |
| the second principal part is | the 'present infinitive' which is translated "to + verb meaning". |
| The 'infinitive' of most verbs | ends in the letters -RE |
| the third principal part of a verb | perfect tense, first person singular (to be learned later) |
| the fourth principal part of a verb | To be learned much later in the course |
| Latin students must learn | the four principal parts of every verb |
