Wheelock Chapter 8: 3rd Conjugation
Present Active Indicative
Because the thematic vowel e in the third conjugation is ______and usually unaccented, it went through many sound and spelling changes by the ______Period. We know that to find the stem, we remove the _____ from the present infinitive, giving us a stem that ends in “___,” but due to these sound and spelling changes, the ____ rarely sticks around. In the present active indicative, it generally turns into a short ___.
Endings / Sg / Pl / agō / Singular / Plural1 / 1
2 / 2
3 / 3
NB that the vowel changes look like those in the ______and ______conjugation future endings, but be sure not to confuse these endings as being future.
Imperfect Active Indicative
agō / Sg / Pl1
2
3
The imperfect of the third conjugation is easy because it uses the same set of endings that all the other conjugations do (_____, ____, etc).
Future Active Indicative
A noticeable difference between the future in the 1st and 2nd conjugations and that of the 3rd and 4th is the lack of the future infix ______. In 3rd and 4th, the sign of the future tense is the vowel _____, which shows up in all of the forms except the ______, where the stem vowel contracts and disappears, and we use the “_____” personal ending.
Endings / Sg / Pl / agō / Singular / Plural1 / 1
2 / 2
3 / 3
To help keep the different future endings straight, we can use the mnemonic device “in conjugations 1 and 2, for future use ____, ____, ____. In conjugations 4 and 3, for future use_____ and _____.”
Sg / Plagō
vincō
Present Imperative
Just like in the other conjugations, the singular imperative is just the ______. In the plural imperative, the short ____ again turns into a short ____.
dūcere, leadfacere, do
dīcere, say
ferre, bear
There are some common verbs that have slightly irregular singular imperatives: the _____ drops off the end. They do, however, act normally in the plural.