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Verbs; First and Second Conjugations: Present Infinitive, Indicative, and Imperative Active; Translating I'm hoping my pratice on this website will be to skip any explanatory crap and get right to the mnemonics. That's what you're here for, right? If you want to read the rules, you've got the textbook. You're here because you don't remember them. And so, without further ado... First and Second Conjugation, Present Indicative - to the tune of Jingle Bells: Conjugate a verb! 'O' for me and 'S' for you And 'T' for person third! Oh! Conjugate! Conjugate! Plural verbs for me! 'MUS' for us and 'TIS' for you And they end in 'N-T'! I've heard other people suggest singing just the letters, to the tune of The Mickey Mouse Club Song: M-U-S! T-I-S N-T! Not included in the song is the fact that first conjugation verbs drop the 'a', as in 'laudare' becoming 'laudo', while second conjugation verbs keep their 'e', as in 'monere' becoming 'moneo'. But that's pretty easy to remember. Imperatives, to the tune of Mary Had a Little Lamb: The verb stem! The verb stem! Imperative is the verb stem! That's all you need to know! For plurals you add T and E! T and E! T and E! For plurals you add T and E! That's all you need to know! It's easy to get this mixed up with the '-re' of an infinitive (all the '-ive's kicking around in Latin are great. I think they put them there on purpose just to confuse us more). Remember the difference by thinking of a reply to an email about infinity: "RE: infinity". That'll tell you that '-re' goes with 'infinitive'. |