Introductory Latin: sum (all tenses)

Exercise 15: sum (all tenses)

Look back to Exercise 11 for SUBJECT COMPLEMENTS.

NOTES: For the perfect, future-perfect and pluperfect the verb sum, esse (to be) uses the perfect stock ‘fu-’:

fui, fuisti, fuit, fuimus, fuistis, fuerunt (perfect)
fuero, -eris, -erit, -erimus, -eritis, -erint (future-perfect)
fueram, -eras, -erat, -eramus, -eratis, -erant (pluperfect)

 

Please attempt all questions.

1. 

Translate the following phrases: Caesaris servus

2. 

Turn the following verbs into the perfect tense: Caesaris servi sunt ingentes.

3. 

Turn the following verbs into the perfect tense: reginae erant saevae.

4. 

Choose the correct form to complete the sentence: Caesar ... fuerit.

5. 

Translate the following phrases: longis gladiis

6. 

Turn the following verbs into the perfect tense: legatus Gallorum erit.

7. 

Turn the following into the singular: gladii sunt longi.

8. 

Turn the following into the singular: dies erunt tristes.

9. 

Turn the following into the singular: servi regis erunt.

10. 

Translate the following phrases: saevus dominus

11. 

Turn the following verbs into the perfect tense: reges erunt sapientes.

12. 

Turn the following into the singular: reginae erant sapientes.

13. 

Turn the following into the singular: reges sunt saevi.

14. 

Turn the following into the singular: legati Gallorum erant.

15. 

Translate the following phrases: bonos poetas

16. 

Turn the following verbs into the perfect tense: dominus erat tristis.

17. 

Choose the correct form to complete the sentence: Cleopatra ... bona fuerat.

18. 

Translate the following phrases: bonis servis

19. 

Turn the following into the singular: poetae sunt ingentes.

20. 

Turn the following verbs into the perfect tense: miles est Caesaris.