STAGE 22Perfect Active Participles

Perfect Active Participles

Some verbs in Latin cannot have PPP (perfect passive participles). In stead they have Perfect Active Participles.

Deponent Verbs

Verbs that have PAPs are deponent verbs because they “Put aside” the normal forms.

Memorize the List

To learn PAPs, you simply learn the list and learn the translation formula.

Translation formula is

Having ________ed. Having is active (no been) “____ed” shows it

happened in the past (perfect)

CLAP-G

Conspicatus-a-um (having caught sight of)

Locutus-a-um (having spoken) Adeptus-a-um (having received) Precatus-a-um(having prayed)

--gressus-a-um compounds (having stepped)

Practice

Modestus, multa verba locutus, exit.

Modestus, having spoken many words, left.

Ancilla, aquam adepta, ad villam redit.

The slave girl, having obtained the water, returned to the house.

Senex, ad deam precatus, laetus erat.

The old man, having prayed to the goddess was happy.

Modestus, having caught sight of the girl, walked to the forum.

Modestus, puellam conspicatus, ad forum ambulavit/ambulabat.

Flavia, having prayed in the atrium, was happy.

Flavia, in atrio precata, laeta erat.

Make a Small Chart

Write PERFECT ACTIVE PARTICIPLES at the top.

Write C on the left side of your paper. L

APG

Write out the participle nominative formsIllustrate the meaning