The Imperfect Active Subjunctive

[@ashwinnmyburgh9364]

I finally understand! Thanks so much, I was struggling with getting my head around this concept! love Latin and love your channel!

[@latintutorial]

You’re welcome!

[@TroyaE117]

Your explanations are excellent, friend. You are clearly very knowledgeable on this difficult (and rewarding) subject.

[@ReadySetGoPictures]

I miss your videos.

[@latintutorial]

Me too. A few things are wrapping up in the next few weeks (Master's degree, school) that will free up A LOT more time for me. Making more videos is a priority.

[@ReadySetGoPictures]

Yay! Best of luck finishing your Masters! I'm hoping they add Latin at my university within the next year!

[@mahisarpal4328]

@@latintutorial hope your master degree went well

[@yeyeye7804]

Can u plz make a video about FAP (Future Active Participle)

[@curtpiazza1688]

Great! Love the "Tense Matrix"!

[@legaleagle46]

My personal theory is that the Imperfect Subjunctive is what eventually became the Personal Infinitive in Portuguese, because the Personal Infinitive is formed in exactly the same way as the Imperfect Subjunctive and can even be used in instances where Latin would, in fact, use the Imperfect Subjunctive. Incidentally, Portuguese is the only Romance Language that has a Personal Infinitive.

[@giuliogequelim]

O significado, entretanto, não tem nada a ver... Pode ser que o nosso infinitivo pessoal foi formado simplesmente juntando as terminações ao infinitivo segundo a índole da língua... E o motivo de só nós termos o infinitivo pessoal é que, ao contrário do espanhol, procuramos evitar o presente do subjuntivo (é para tu ouvires vs. es para que tu oigas)... Não sei, é apenas minha impressão...

[@cameronmurray752]

how do you actually translate it.... ?

[@marta9833]

Yes seriously how

[@aniketanpelletier82]

Many different ways. I may have been (verbing), I would have been (verbing), I should have been (verbing), that I had been (verbing), etc etc

[@kileyrowell3165]

Thank you sir youre saving my life

[@Sat22]

Helpful for understanding, but... how do I translate an imperfect active subjunctive...?

[@latintutorial]

The video talks about it somewhat - it's translated differently based on the use it's found in. You can probably default, though, to the standard imperfect when in doubt.

[@hubertwolanin1785]

Your movies are very helpful . Can you create a movie about locativus in latin, it would be really nice ,please?

[@qiushizhang602]

err they are called videos but movies sound quite cool as well!

[@avzarathustra6164]

Technically interchangeable

[@francistrespeces5631]

is there a translation to the imperfect subjunctive?

[@matthewku4563]

COOOL! THIS IS WHY I LEARN LATIN :DDD

[@awesome2_mr313]

At 0:23 what was that green flash?

[@ralitsaivanova6965]

Great video, as always! Maybe this question if offtopic, but i don`t understand something: how come latin has coniunctivus imperfecti, but ancient greek doesn't?

[@AlbertCheng69]

For the examples, with scivi quid faceres, why would the subjunctive need to be used? Wouldn't you just put the indicative and have it be "scivi quid fecisti"? Edit: melling spistake

[@jobi5329]

soo.. amares is translatied as 'were loving'?

[@paulinho8752]

So... "I thought you were the king of demons" is "Cōgitābam rēx daemoniōrum essēs"?

[@harrietlannero1953]

So how would you translate e.g. ‘clamaremus’?

[@thedidaskalon3523]

You forgot that fio fieri factus sum is different.

[@latintutorial]

+The Didaskalon True. I didn't want to go that deep. For the record, fio goes like deponent verbs, with a "made up" 2nd principal part (fierem, fieres, etc.). I think this topic does show up in my imperfect passive subjunctive video.

[@TheSkepticSkwerl]

Would you possibly upload a video of you reading Latin so that we can hear it pronounced. Maybe 4 or 5 paragraphs that hit every sound? That would be awesome.

[@alexablinson7379]

This is extremely random, but did you ever do the narration for a series on RightNow Media? You sound really familiar

[@latintutorial]

No.

[@camena5684]

Why should the "faceres" in scivi faceres be in subjunctive mood?

[@legaleagle46]

Because it's an indirect question. The direct question is "What did you do?" or "What have you done?" Latin requires all indirect speech (including indirect questions) to put verbs into the Subjunctive.

[@erickr404]

Is it possible to mix a main verb in present tense and a subordinate clause with a verb in imperfect subjunctive, like "scio quid faceres"? Would it mean something?

[@latintutorial]

Not generally. If you wanted to say "I know what you were doing", you'd still want to use the perfect subjunctive (which in this case can represent an imperfect action). That said, I'm not ruling out that it did happen (even incorrectly), just that the bulk of the evidence says that this isn't how the language works.

[@erickr404]

Thanks! Sometimes the hardest part is understanding how Latin constructions don't work!

[@alexlezama5574]

do you understand spanish? i speak spanish and english but no at all, i'll start to see your videos , i really wanna learn latin :)

[@TheSkepticSkwerl]

Look into the book(libro) "lingua latina per illustrata"

[@soundtrackiwalkto]

Can someone tell me how do you say "Box of jewels and memories". Thank you.

[@alemkelo3240]

gemmarum memoriarumque arca perhaps

[@soundtrackiwalkto]

Thanks

[@legaleagle46]

Close, but the word order would more likely be "arca gemmarum memoriarumque" The two genitives would be treated as adjectives modifying "arca," and would therefore follow the general rule that adjectives follow the nouns they modify.

[@WillelmusAestus]

I don't get it. If: "I know what you are doing" is "Scio quid facias" "I know what you did" is "Scio quid feceris" Then "I know what yoy were doing" shouldn't be "Scio quid faceres"? And "I know what you had done" should be "Scio quid fecisses"?

[@latintutorial]

Latin (and in some ways English) doesn’t work that way. Sure, you can put words down, but the internal logic might not work. Take the pluperfect - it really is designed to be a completed past action (so something that is completed at the time that the past happens). But with scio, we are in the present tense, so what really does that “completed past” refer to? The perfect is really the completed present, and so it makes sense to use it with scio. It’s also important to be sure to learn the language and its internal logic/grammar, rather than trying to understand things based on an English translation. Latin didn’t develop to be translated into English (and vice versa)!

[@WillelmusAestus]

@@latintutorial To me, it doesn't matter. In order to understand, you need to compare the two. Because, if you go and just "learn the internal logic", then I feel what will happen is you will speak based on "what feels correct", like you do with your mother tongue. But if you compare it with other languages you speak (English is not even my native language), then I feel it becomes more clear. Ugh, this Subjunctive thing is like a storm and I feel a headache trying to wrap my head around it, as if I hadn't slept for days. xD

[@WillelmusAestus]

Wait, did I understand this correctly then? Present I know what you are doing. Scio quid facias. Perfect I know what you did. Scio quid fecisti. Imperfect I know what you were doing. Scio quid faceres. Pluperfect I know what you had done. Scio quid fecisses. Future I know what you will do. Scio quid facies. Is this correct?

[@latintutorial]

Kind of. You can't use scio with the imperfect or pluperfect subjunctive. So it'd be "sciebam" or "scivi". sciebam quid faceres, sciebam quid fecisses.

[@WillelmusAestus]

@@latintutorial Oooh, right, that makes sense. Thank you.

[@camena5684]

I mean how is that an indirect question?

[@latintutorial]

+Jiatong Wang direct question: quid faciebas, what were you doing? Indirect question, scivi quid faceres, I knew what you were doing.

[@matthewku4563]

this is hilarious

[@HG-sg3hr]

latin should be killed oh no, latin is already dead anyway thanks for the help I had to add my epic joke

[@theophonchana5025]

#rhotacization #rhotacism

[@aryanmane9106]

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