t (amat—amabat) ; and in the plural, mus, tis, nt, as (amamus, amatis, amant). The third person plural from ire is not int, but being softened in the pronunciation by the insertion of u, becomes iunt, as audiunt, fugiunt; and the secondary ĕre, as in lambere does not make lambent in the third person plural, but lambunt. The different tenses to be considered are the present, imperfect, preterperfect, preterpluperfect, and future; and there are two moods, the indicative and the subjunctive, each of which contains all the foregoing tenses.
In the present tense of the subjunctive mood when the vowel is a in the infinitive, itis changed into e; and when it is e in the infinitive, it becomes a in the subjunctive ; this may be thus
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amare—amem; delere— |
deleam; legere—legam. The character of the imperfect is ba in the indicative, and re in the subjunctive mood. The word bare will bring this to our recollection—amabam—amarem; delebam—delerem.
The character of the preterperfect is i in the indicative, except in the secondary verbs, and in the subjunctive is erim; amavi—amaverim; delevi—deleverim;—lambi—lamberim.
