3rd, 3rd –io and 4th Conjugation Verbs

Present and Future Tenses

Let’s Review: 3rd Conjugation!

• 3rd conjugation verbs have –O, -ERE in their dictionary entry.

• pono, ponere, posui, positus• mitto, mittere, misi, missus

NO “-BO”• 3rd conjugation verbs do NOT use our “old”

future tense endings:• -bo, -bis, -bit, -bimus, -bitis, -bunt• You only use the “-bo” endings for 1st and 2nd

conjugation verbs (-o, -are and –eo, -ēre)

Use me: E!

·Present Tense:·pono ponimus·ponis ponitis·ponit ponunt

·Future Tense:·ponam ponemus·pones ponetis·ponet ponent

Let’s Review: 3rd –io Conjugation!

• 3rd conjugation –io verbs have –IO, -ERE in their dictionary entry.

• capio, capere, cepi, captus• facio, facere, feci, factus

3rd –IO Conjugation Future Tense Endings Singular Plural1st person

2nd person

3rd person

I will…

you will…

he/she/it will…

we will…

y’all will…

they will…

i

i

Let’s review: 4th Conjugation

• Their first ending is always –io.• 4th conjugation verbs always have –ire for

their infinitive ending.– munio, munire, munivi, munitus– venio, venire, vēni, venturus

Finding the Stem4th Conjugation Verbs

• 4th conjugation verbs just drop the –re to find their stem.

• venio, venire, veni, venturus• Then you’re going to add the future tense

endings…

So…what does it mean???• Cibum in carrum ponimus.• We place the food into the cart.

• Cibum in carrum ponemus.• We will place the food into the cart.

• You know ponemus is future because you know that pono, ponere is 3rd conjugation and 3rd conjugation verbs use “E” in their future tense endings.

NO “-BO”• Neither 3rd, 3rd –io nor 4th conjugation verbs

use our “old” future tense endings:• -bo, -bis, -bit, -bimus, -bitis, -bunt• You only use the “-bo” endings for 1st and 2nd

conjugation verbs (-o, -are and –eo, -ēre)

Use us: I and E!

Every “E” Is Not Future Tense • 2nd conjugation verbs have “e” that occurs

naturally in their PRESENT tense.• 2nd conjugation verbs: -eo, -ēre

• doceo, docēre: teach

• Present Tense Future Tense• doceo docemusdocebo docebimus• doces docetis docebis docebitis• docet docent docebit docebunt

Cheat Sheet!• If a verb ends in bo, bis, bit, bimus, bitis, bunt, it’s

DEFINITELY future tense.• If a verb ends in –am it’s DEFINITELY future tense (1st

person, “I will…”)• If a verb ends in –es, -et, -emus, -etis, -ent it’s either

PRESENT or FUTURE. Do a conjugation check:• 2nd conjugation: PRESENT• 3rd/4th conjugation: FUTURE• If a verb ending has a combination of –ie-, it’s always

future tense.

Your Turn!

• Conjugate duco, ducere in the present AND future tense.

• Conjugate facio, facere in the present AND future tense.

• Conjugate audio, audire in the present AND future tense.