How Do I Change a Perfect Active to a Perfect Passive Form?

(Cf. Wheelock 19)

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To change a perfect active to a perfect passive form:

  

1. Start with the perfect active form that you wish to change.

AMÂVÎ

AMÂVERAM

AMÂVERÔ

I have loved

I had loved

I will have loved

 

 

2. Get the FOURTH principal part, and give it the correct gender and number, according to the subject.

AMÂTUS

loved

 

 

3. Add the appropriate form of esse, according to tense and according to the number and gender of the subject.

AMÂTUS SUM

AMÂTUS ERAM

AMÂTUS ERÔ

I have been loved

I had been loved

I will have been loved

  

See a fuller explanation with translations for all conjugations.

  

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Further Examples:

The girls have been reminded.

Puellae monitae sunt.

The towns will have been taken.

Oppida capta erunt.

The speakers had been heard.

Ôrâtôrês audîtî erant.

The books were sent.

Librî missî sunt.

The book was sent.

Liber missus est.

  

See a fuller explanation with translations for all conjugations.

  

Practice on Perfect Passives, Part 1    Practice on Perfect Passives, Part 2

  

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