Latin for Beginners · Lesson XXV · Part 4: Verbs: the active voice
25. Future of regō and audiō
Goal: Your child forms the future of the third and fourth conjugations with -a- and -ē-, and does not confuse it with the present.
You'll need
- The book, open to this lesson
- A notebook for Latin, and a pencil
What's in the book
The future tense of the third and fourth conjugations, which uses a new tense sign (-a- in the first person, -ē- in the rest). Forms, then twelve English sentences that also review the dative verbs.
The lesson, step by step
Review
Conjugate regō in the imperfect.
A new tense sign
In the third and fourth conjugations the future does not use -bi-. It uses -a- for "I" and -ē- for the rest:
regam, regēs, reget, regēmus, regētis, regent
audiam, audiēs, audiet, audiēmus, audiētis, audient
A trap
The book points out that the future of regō looks like the present of moneō, except in the first person. regēs means "you will rule", not "you rule". Practice a few: reget? audiet? regit?
Exercises
Section 158, Exercise I. Two of the lines:
Dīcet, dūcētis, mūniēmus.
Mittam, veniēmus, regent.
English to Latin
Exercise II. Sentences 6 to 12 use the dative verbs from Lesson XXIV. The book reminds you that quis is singular, and to use ego when "I" is stressed.
Wrap up
Your child says all three tenses of mittō in the first person: mittō, mittēbam, mittam.
Answers to the book's problems
Exercise I: 1. He will say, you (plural) will lead, we shall fortify. 2. They will say, you (plural) will say, we shall send. 3. They will fortify, they will come, they will send, they will drive. 4. He will lead, you will send, he will come, he will drive. 5. He will fortify, you (plural) will find, we shall drive. 6. I shall send, we shall come, they will rule. 7. You (plural) will hear, you will come, you will find. 8. He will find, I shall drive, we shall lead, he will send. 9. You (plural) will see, I shall sit, we shall call.
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