Highlights from Thurs. 9/22

Future and Imperfect

How to recognize them

-Future: tag –bi- attached before the personal ending (the thing you get the subject from)

*3^rd and 4^th conjugations are different

-Imperfect: tag –ba- attached before the personal ending

*this works for all verbs

> exceptions to the above are covered on Wheelock p. 41

How to form them

-Take the second principle part, take off the –re, add –ba- or –bi-, depending on whether you want to form the past or future, and add the personal ending that will give you the form you want.

How to translate it

-the future is translated like the English future: I will ______.

-the imperfect is translated as a past progressive: I was ____________ing. “Progressive” means you are talking about something that happened regularly or over time in the past: “I was going to the gym” rather than “I went to the gym”