What does verunt mean from latin?

Answer 1

Know this:

Imperfect and perfect verbs are both past tense. Here are the meanings:

Imperfect:

If it ends in -bat, that means it is singular imperfect because it ends with a t. It also means when put with a verb, it will end with "-ing."

For example, if you said, "Amicus erat spectabat."

Amicus means "friend" in Latin and "erat" means was. "Spectabat" means to watch, or to look. So you are trying to say the friend is watching something. It will, however, have to end with -ing.

So your correct translation should be:

The friend was watching.

If it ends in -bant, it is the plural imperfect.

So, taking from what was above, know that when dealing with singular and plural, you can recgonize singular verbs because they end with t and recgonize plural verbs because they end with nt.

For example:

Amici erant spectabant.

Notice the two -nts. That means they are plural.

Perfect verbs:

The singular term is "vit." It should end with -ed. And like all singular things, vit ends with a t.

Here's an example:

Amicus erat spectavit.

The friend was watching is what the sentence means, as said above. But instead of watching, it will instead be:

The friend watched.

The plural term ends with "verunt." This means it includes more than one person, and some words should end with -nt.

Ex:

Amici erant spectaverunt.

You are saying that the friends watched. Plural.

I hope this helped.