DEFECTIVE VERBS.
Defective Verbs lack certain forms. The following are the most important:—
[133]. USED MAINLY IN THE PERFECT SYSTEM.
| Coepī, I have begun. | Meminī, I remember. | Ōdī, I hate. | |
INDICATIVE MOOD. | |||
| Perf. | coepī. | meminī. | ōdī. |
| Plup. | coeperam. | memineram. | ōderam. |
| Fut. P. | coeperō. | meminerō. | ōderō. |
SUBJUNCTIVE. | |||
| Perf. | coeperim. | meminerim. | ōderim. |
| Pluf. | coepissem. | meminissem. | ōdissem. |
IMPERATIVE. | |||
| Sing. mementō; Plur. mementōte. | |||
INFINITIVE. | |||
| Perf. | coepisse. | meminisse. | ōdisse. |
| Fut. | coeptūrus esse. | ōsūrus esse. | |
PARTICIPLE. | |||
| Perf. | coeptus, begun. | ōsus. | |
| Fut. | coeptūrus. | ōsūrus. | |
1. When coepī governs a Passive Infinitive it usually takes the form coeptus est; as, amārī coeptus est, he began to be loved.
2. Note that meminī and ōdī, though Perfect in form, are Present in sense. Similarly the Pluperfect and Future Perfect have the force of the Imperfect and Future; as, memineram, I remembered; ōderō, I shall hate.
[134]. Inquam, I say (inserted between words of a direct quotation)
| INDICATIVE MOOD. | ||
| SINGULAR. | PLURAL. | |
| Pres. | inquam, | —— |
| inquis, | —— | |
| inquit; | inquiunt. | |
| Fut. | —— | —— |
| inquiēs, | —— | |
| inquiet. | —— | |
| Perf. 3d Sing. inquit. | ||
[135]. Ajō, I say.
| INDICATIVE MOOD. | ||
| SINGULAR. | PLURAL | |
| Pres. | ajō, | —— |
| aīs, | —— | |
| ait; | ajunt. | |
| Imp. | ajēbam, | ajēbāmus, |
| ajēbās, | ajēbātis, | |
| ajēbat; | ajēbant. | |
| Perf 3d Sing. aït. | ||
SUBJUNCTIVE. Pres 3d Sing. ajat. | ||