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Deponent Verbs
what are these crazy critters?
Normal Verbs
We like normal verbs. . .They behave.
Normal verbs (all the verbs you have so
far) behave normally, i.e.
amo = I love, I do love, I am loving
but nothing else. . .
No other translation works
Verbs have Voices!
So they can cry if you conjugate them wrong
The voice of a verb is either active or passive
active:
passive:
amo
amor
I love
I am loved (by all my students)
These are still normal verbs 
Exempla
Active:
The cat chases the bear.
feles ursam agitat.
Passive: The bear is chased by the cat.
ursa a fele agitatur.
In both sentences, the same thing is
happening.
Normal Verb = Normal Participle
Present Participles = “ing”
amo,amare, amavi, amatus
amans, amantis = loving
Perfect Participles = “having been verbed”
amo,amare, amavi, amatus
amatus –a –um = having been loved
So You’re Bored
Because most of this isn’t new. . .
Deponent Verbs are Weird
Alas
They always have passive endings, but
they always translate actively.
It’s not my fault. I didn’t make them.
patior = “I suffer” not “I am suffered”.
And they have weird Participles
Also not my fault
Present Participles are normal, no worries
Perfect Participles are not passive!!!!
patior, pati, passus
passus –a –um = “having suffered”
Which explains the weirdness in this Stage!