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Chapter 25 – Infinitives
•  In syntax, a transitive verb is a verb that requires
both a subject and one or more objects.
Mary sees John.
•  an intransitive verb has a subject but does not have an
object. For example, in English, the verbs sleep, die, and
swim, are intransitive.
The cup broke.
Chapter 25 – Infinitives
In Latin, most transitive verbs have six infinitives:
1. Present Active
2. Present Passive
3. Future Active
4. Future Passive
5. Perfect Active
6. Perfect Passive
Intransitive verbs lack the passive.
Chapter 25 – Infinitives
You have already learned the present active
& present passive infinitives:
Present active = laudare
Present passive = laudarī
Chapter 25 – Infinitives
Active
Passive
Present Laudāre
Laudārī
Perfect Laudāvisse
Laudātus, a, um
esse
Future
Laudātum īrī
Laudātūrus, a,
um esse
Chapter 25 – Infinitives
Active
Passive
Present Agere, to lead
Agī, to be led
Perfect ēgisse, to have
led
āctus, a, um esse,
to have been led
Future
āctūrus, a , um
āctum īrī, to be
esse, to be about about to be led
to lead
Chapter 25 – Infinitives
As a verbal noun, an infinitive can function in a
variety of ways:
As a subject:
Errāre est humānum. To err is human.
As a compliment to verbs like possum and dēbeō:
Discēdere nunc possunt.
The infinitive, with its own accusative subject, can also serve
as a direct object: Iussit eōs venīre.