#dico dicere dixi dictum. ha. i cannot remember if this is third or fourth which one is which... god...
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Oh... I've finally gotten back around to reviewing/relearning Latin, and verb forms are probably the thing I struggle the most with/need to review the most urgently. So I...
I'm using this as a checklist... the ones with the periods are the ones I Definitely Remember And Could Do In My Sleep* and the others I either have not quizzed myself on yet or just... know that I won't be able to do them.
How did I KNOW all of these??? At any point???
To be fair, I never knew the subjunctive all that well (I mainly went off of, like... "I know indicative verbs and this sure doesn't look like one!"), but... this makes me so sad. I've forgotten so much.
And that's not even getting into participles and infinitives. Imperatives are fine, probably.
I think I'll be good on prepositions and ablative uses with just a little bit of review, but the various subjunctive uses are going to be a pain in the ass to learn/relearn. (To be honest, that's another case of learning more than relearning. I was able to guess/use context in class, but I'd like to also actually know them well.)
*There's the caveat of... my first-person singular future active indicative of "superāre." For which I wrote "superam." Which I guess is third conjugation rules? Or third-io? I don't remember? I guess it's good that I vaguely remember conjugation rules from a different conjugation, but... help.
#ahh... are there other major things i'm forgetting? for some reason third declension is my worst one to remember. like.#why do i remember fourth declension with all of its stupid u's. what's with that.#is it because there are four variations of third declension...#also why was this language so EASY for me to learn the first time around? i feel so doomed now...#not really i mean. i'm sure a lot of it will come back to me fairly quickly with some review. and... the best part...#i've recruited someone on campus to harass me with random latin phrases so that i can feel ashamed of having forgotten and then have#motivation to study. is this a weird way to motivate myself? slightly. perhaps slightly unhealthy.#but i have been very bad at reviewing on my own despite wanting to do so and i think this method will work#dante dicit#dico dicere dixi dictum. ha. i cannot remember if this is third or fourth which one is which... god...#latin#relearning latin#maybe i'll make posts about my Studying so that i can feel Internet Peer Pressure to do so as well
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