Infinitives and Indirect Statements

present Active Infinitive

• 2nd Principal Part
• usually end in -re
• to ______
• ex. Parare= to prepare

Present passive

• 2nd principal part (ex. videre)
• take off last -e (vider-)
• add -i (videri)
• to be ______ed
• videri= to be seen

Present Passive Cont.

• 3rd Conjugation and 3-I
• take off - ere
• add -i
• ex. ducere- duci (to be led)
• ex. dicere- dici (to be said)

Perfect Active

• 3rd Principal Part
• add -sse
• to have ____ed
• ex. inveni- invenisse (to have found)

perfect Passive

• 4th principal part
• add esse
• to have been _____ed
• ex. ductus, a, um esse (to have been led)

Future active

• take the future active participle (ductURus)
• add esse
• to be about to _____
• ex. amaturus esse ( to be about to love)

Indirect Statement

• reporting something that someone thinks, knows, feels, etc.
• consists of ...
• Head verb (feel, think, know, believe)
• accusative subject 
• infinitive

Examples of Indirect Statements

• Non cogitamus epistulam scripisse Cicerone
• We do not think THAT*** the letter was written by Cicero
• *** there is an implied "that" in indirect statements"
• cogitamus= head verb
• epistulam= accusative subject and scripisse= infinitive