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Latin

Passive/Subjunctive Tenses
Passive is used to describe something like an indirect action affects you - an example is "I was being held". In Latin, it is conjugated through six parts - the present set (present, imperfect, future), and the perfect set (perfect, pluperfect, future perfect). Below is a chart you can use for endings and such.

The present tense through future tenses use the present stem. I'm using the word amo, amare, amavi, amatus - to love, so the present stem is "am".

Present 
1st person  amor  amāmur 
2nd person  amāris  amāminī 
3rd person  amātur  amantur 
  
Imperfect 
1st person  amābar  amābāmur 
2nd person  amābāris  amābāminī 
3rd person  amābātur  amābantur 
  
Future 
1st person  amābor  amābimur 
2nd person  amāberis  amābiminī 
3rd person  amābitur  amābuntur 
  
Perfect 
1st person  amātus, a, um sum  amātī, ae, a sumus 
2nd person  amātus es  amātī estis 
3rd person  amātus est  amātī sunt 
  
Pluperfect 
1st person  amātus, a, um eram  amātī, ae, a erāmus 
2nd person  amātus erās  amātī erātis 
3rd person  amātus erat  amātī erant 
  
Future Perfect 
1st person  amātus, a, um erō  amātī, ae, a erimus 
2nd person  amātus eris  amātī eritis 
3rd person  amātus erit  amātī erunt 

Hope this is all correct and helps!


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