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t. _Fut._ ---- ---- inquies, ---- inquiet. ---- _Perf. 3d Sing._ inquit. 135. Ajo, _I say_. INDICATIVE MOOD. SINGULAR. PLURAL _Pres._ ajo, ---- ais, ---- ait; ajunt. _Imp._ ajebam, ajebamus, ajebas, ajebatis, ajebat; ajebant. _Perf 3d Sing._ ait. SUBJUNCTIVE. _Pres 3d Sing._ ajat. NOTE.--For aisne, _do you mean?_ ain is common. 136. Fari, _to speak._ This is inflected regularly in the perfect tenses. In the Present System it has-- INDICATIVE MOOD. SINGULAR. PLURAL. _Pres._ ---- ---- ---- ---- fatur. ---- _Fut._ fabor, ---- ---- ---- fabitur. ---- _Impv._ fare. _Inf._ fari. _Pres. fantis, fanti, etc. Partic._ _Gerund_, fandi; _D. and Abl._, fando. _G._, _Gerundive_, fandus. NOTE.--Forms of fari are rare. More frequent are its compounds; as,-- affatur, _he addresses_; praefamur, _we say in advance._ 137. OTHER DEFECTIVE FORMS. 1. Queo, quire, quivi, _to be able_, and nequeo, nequire, nequivi, _to be unable_, are inflected like eo, but occur chiefly in the Present Tense, and there only in special forms. 2. Quaeso, _I entreat_; quaesumus, _we entreat_. 3. Cedo (2d sing. Impv.), cette (2d plu.); _give me_, _tell me_. 4. Salve, salvete, _hail_. Also Infinitive, salvere. 5. Have (ave), havete, _hail_. Also Infinitive, havere. * * * * * IMPERSONAL VERBS. 138. Impersonal Verbs correspond to the English, _it snows, it seems, etc._ They have no personal subject, but may take an Infinitive, a Clause, or a Neuter Pronoun; as, me pudet hoc fecisse, lit. _it shames me to have done this_; hoc decet, _this is fitting_. Here belong-- I. Verbs denoting operations of the weather; as,-- fulget fulsit _it lightens_ tonat tonuit _it thunders_ grandinat ---- _it hails_ ningit ninxit _it snows_ pluit pluit _it rains_ II. Special Verbs. paenitet paenitere paenituit _it repents_ piget pige
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