To understand what a Latin verb is saying, you have to know its: * Person and Number (Who or what is the subject of the verb?) * Tense (When does the verbal action takes place?) Right now all we have is Present Tense. * Voice (Is the subject acting or being acted upon?) Right now all we have is the Active Voice (where the subject is doing the acting). * Mood (How does the speaker conceptualize the verbal action?) Right now we have three moods: Indicative, Imperative, Infinitive. Of these, Mood is often the hardest to understand. 1. Indicative is the mood used when the speaker visualizes the verbal action as descriptive or declarative. 2. Imperative is the mood used when the speaker commands (wishes) the action. In Latin it is always done in second person. 3. Infinitive is the bare expression of the verbal action, without a subject. In English, the infinitive is the "to ____" form of the verb. You can also think of it as a verbal noun, used like a regular noun might be: "I like to ski" (same as "I like pasta") and "It is difficult to fly" (same as "Calculus [it] is difficult"). Yikes! Yet you do this every time you say any verb, only intuitively. Try giving the person, number, tense (present), voice (active), and mood of the following Latin verbs: