Latin for Beginners eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 433 pages of information about Latin for Beginners.

Latin for Beginners eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 433 pages of information about Latin for Beginners.

383. The verb fi:o:\, _be made, happen_, serves as the passive of facio:\, make, in the present system.  The rest of the verb is formed regularly from facio:\.  Learn the principal parts and conjugation (Sec. 500).  Observe that the i\ is long except before -er and in fit\.

    a. The compounds of facio\ with prepositions usually form the
    passive regularly, as,

Active conficio, conficere, confeci, confectus
Passive conficior, confici, confectus sum

[ Conjugation given in Sec. 500: 

PRINCIPAL PARTS fi:o:, fieri:, factus sum\

INDICATIVE                 SUBJUNCTIVE              IMPERATIVE
Pres.  fi:o:       ——­     fi:am          2d Pers. fi:       fi:te
fi:s      ——­
fit      fi:unt
Impf.  fi:e:bam            fierem
Fut.   fi:am              ——­
INDICATIVE SUBJUNCTIVE Perf. factus, -a, -um sum factus, -a, -um sim Plup. factus, -a, -um eram factus, -a, -um essem F.  P. factus, -a, -um ero: 
INFINITIVE PARTICIPLES Pres. fieri:  Perf. factus, -a, -um Perf. factus, -a, -um esse Ger. faciendus, -a, -um Fut. [[factum i:ri:]]]

384. Observe the following sentences: 

  1.  Terror erat tantus ut omnes fugerent, the terror was so great
  that all fled.

  2.  Terror erat tantus ut non facile milites sese reciperent, the
  terror was so great that the soldiers did not easily recover
  themselves.

  3.  Terror fecit ut omnes fugerent, terror caused all to flee
  (lit. made that all fled).

    a. Each of these sentences is complex, containing a principal
    clause and a subordinate clause.

    b. The principal clause names a cause and the subordinate clause
    states the consequence or result of this cause.

c. The subordinate clause has its verb in the subjunctive, though it is translated like an indicative.  The construction is called the subjunctive of consequence or result, and the clause is called a consecutive or result clause.

    d. In the last example the clause of result is the object of the
    verb fecit\.

    e. The conjunction introducing the consecutive or result clause is
    ut\ = _so that_; negative, ut no:n\ = so that not.

385. RULE.  Subjunctive of Result. Consecutive clauses of result are introduced by /ut\ or /ut no:n\ and have the verb in the subjunctive.

386. RULE. Object clauses of result with /ut\ or /ut no:n\ are found after verbs of /effecting\ or /bringing about\.

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