Conjugatz"on of Sum.
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SUBJUNCTIVE.1 PRESENT. SINGULAR.
PLURAL.
sim, may .I be, sis, mayst thou be, sit, let him be, may he be ;
simus, let us be, sitis, be ye, may you be, sint, let them be. IMPERFECT.
essem.s I should be, esses,2 thou wouldst be, esset,2 he would be ;
esaemus, we should be, essetts, you would be, essent,Âť they would be. PERFECT.
fuerim, I may have been, fueris, thou mayst ha'lle been, fuerit, he may have bem;
fuerimus, we may have been, fueritis, you may lzave been, fuerint, they may haue been. PLUPERFECT.
fuissem, I should have been, fuisses, thou wouldst have been, fuisset, he would have been j
fuissemus, we should have been, fuissetis, you would have been, fuissent, they would have been,
IMPERATIVE.
Pres. es, be thou, Fut. esto, thou slzalt be, esto, he shall be; INFINITIVE.
Pres. esse, to be. Perf. fuisse, to have been. Fut. futiirus esse,"to be about to be.
este, be yeo estote, ye shall be, sunto, they shall be. PARTICIPLE.
Fut. futiirus,4 about to be.
1 The meanings of the different tenses of the Subjunctive are so many and so varied, particularly in subordinate clauses, that no attempt can be made to give them here. For fuller information the pupil is referred to the Syntax. 2 For essem, essss, esset, essent, the forms forem, fares, foret, forent are sometimes used. 8 For futilrus esse the form fore is often used. ~ Declined like bonus, -a, -um.