Learn Hardcore Latin: Ubi primi convivae venerint, serva eis pocula pura offeret. - When the first guests have arrived, the female servant will offer them clean cups.

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Ubi primi convivae venerint, serva eis pocula pura offeret.

Meaning

When the first guests have arrived, the female servant will offer them clean cups.

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Breakdown of Ubi primi convivae venerint, serva eis pocula pura offeret.

Does ubi mean where here, or when?

Here it means when (or as soon as), not where.

Latin ubi can be:

In this sentence, it introduces a time clause:

So the idea is temporal, not locational.

What form is venerint, and why does it have a future sense?

Venerint is the 3rd person plural future perfect active indicative of venire.

So literally it means:

Latin often uses the future perfect in a subordinate time clause when one future action must be completed before another future action happens.

So the sequence is:

That is why Latin uses:

Could be subjunctive instead of indicative?