Personal Endings
Personal endings are used in all tenses. The present, imperfect, future, pluperfect and future perfect use the same personal endings in the active voice. However, the perfect, pluperfect and future perfect do not have personal endings in the passive voice as these are formed by a participle and part of esse. The perfect uses its own personal endings in the active voice.
| Active voice | Passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | ||
| Present tense, etc. | First person | –ō, –m | –mus | –or, –r | –mur |
| Second person | –s | –tis | –ris | –minī | |
| Third person | –t | –nt | –tur | –ntur | |
| Perfect | First person | –ī | –imus | ||
| Second person | –istī | –istis | |||
| Third person | –it | –ērunt / -ēre | |||
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