How do you translate odi? I hated? If this defective has no present indicative how is it used? E.g. how do I say 'I hate'?
Similarly how to use coepisse since Wheelock's says this verb is perfect system only?
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coepi and odi
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coepi and odi
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odi has only the pluperfect, perfect, and future perfect, which carry the meanings of past, present, and future respectively.
coepi is just a normal verb that has lost all of its primary tenses (it has pluperfect, perfect, and future perfect, all of which are translated as they are).
coepi is just a normal verb that has lost all of its primary tenses (it has pluperfect, perfect, and future perfect, all of which are translated as they are).
Last edited by benissimus on Thu Dec 30, 2004 4:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.
flebile nescio quid queritur lyra, flebile lingua murmurat exanimis, respondent flebile ripae