Defective verbs (1 Viewer)

[NSBHSchoolie]

Ok, a grammar question.

The verb, oderit, can be indicative or subjunctive.

If it is indicative, is it classified as future, or future perfect tense?

And if it is subjunctive, is it classified as present, or perfect tense?

Does this follow for memini and coepi, even though coepi is translated as "I began"?

 

[Weisy]

The tense classification of a verb doesn't change, only its English translation. So for "odi, -isse", "oderit" is either

future perfect
indicative
translated in the future

or

perfect
subjunctive
translated in the present

What does everyone else think?

Pretty sure it's the same for "memini". As for "coepi", I don't think it applies, because that verb does appear in the present as well "coepio, ere, -i, -tum".i

 

[flyin']

Isn't it a semi-deponent?

Its too early for latin!
Sorry.

 

[Weisy]

Originally posted by Bon


I think you have no idea what you're talking about!

quiet, you. (stop blowing my cover!)

 

[Weisy]

Originally posted by flyin'
Isn't it a semi-deponent?

Its too early for latin!
Sorry.

It isn't semi-deponent because the past participle doesn't appear passive.

It's never too early for Latin...

how are you feelin', by the way? better?

 

[flyin']

Originally posted by Weisy
how are you feelin', by the way? better?

No!
Still coughing and racked with a mild headache ... but at least the workload at uni is managable and I'm sleeping more!

Btw how are you doing?

(Our little forum)

 

[Weisy]

I'm healthy and functioning. I can tell you all the bone, joints and muslces of the upper limb. But I shall restrain myself, although many of them are in Latin

 

[flyin']

how many bones in a male adult (in latin)!

 

[Weisy]

flyin', when you were born, you had over 300 bones, some of which were cartillaginous. Now you have exactly 206 bones. The Latin for that I really really don't have time to look up.

*sings*..."the scapula's connected to the...humerus..."

 

[flyin']

So which bones and body parts are most fragile? And are baby bones more liable to be broken? Or do our 206 bones become frail as time wears them out?

 

[Weisy]

Hehe...I wouldn't know that...although I do know that the easiest place to break a bone on your upper limb is at the junction of the media 2/3 and lateral 1/3 of the clavicle bone. Baby bones are easier to damage just because they're smaller, and more likely to be cartilaginous. There's also a chance that undeveloped bones may fracture near the epiphysial growth plate of a bone, which is cartilaginous (does not ossify) until the bone has fully grown.