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If you want to say that 'he was' in terms of a recurring event (like he was always nice to me) then you say 'erat'.
If you want to say that 'he was' in terms of a singular event (like he was the king for a year) then you say 'fuit'.
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∙ 11y agoThere is no catchall pronoun for "he" in Latin as there is in English. Person and number in all Latin verbs are determined by their endings. In simple 1st conjugation verbs they are o/m, s, t, mus, tis, nt which attach to the word stem. And these endings change depending. There are 5 verb conjugations and various moods such as indicative, subjunctive and tenses such as present, perfect, pluperfect, etc.
Singular, present, indicative, active :
Sing.
1st ambulo I walk
2nd ambulas you walk
3rd ambulat he/she it walks
Pl.
1st ambulamus we walk
2nd ambulatis you all walked
3rd ambulant they walked
So to say: I walk with you, I write, ambulo sum te.
But to say they walk with me, I have to write : ambulant sum mihi
And that is just the simple 1st conjugation verbs. It gets trickier as you develop more complicated use of verbs such as "ambulā́verim" the perfect subjunctive, which can mean I could walk, I may be walking, should walk, or even could be walking depending on context. But you can see how the ending (averem) changes the meaning.
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Sum.
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