Usages of verbum
Deinde magistra vult ut discipuli verba “amo” et “video” recte coniugent.
Then the teacher wants the students to conjugate the verbs “I love” and “I see” correctly.
Frater fatetur se verbum “possum” bene coniugare non posse, sed conari.
The brother admits that he cannot conjugate the verb “I am able” well, but that he is trying.
In sententia “mox venio” “mox” quoque adverbium est, non nomen nec verbum.
In the sentence “I am coming soon,” “soon” is also an adverb, not a noun nor a verb.
Cum magistra dicat “taceatis,” discipuli intellegunt verbum in coniunctivo positum esse.
When the teacher says “be silent,” the students understand that the verb has been placed in the subjunctive.
Post lectionem puella domi matri narrat se hodie didicisse cur quaedam praepositiones accusativum, aliae ablativum, quaedam utrumque accipiant, et cur idem verbum in indicativo aut in coniunctivo alium sensum habeat.
After the lesson the girl tells her mother at home that today she learned why some prepositions take the accusative, others the ablative, some both, and why the same verb has a different sense in the indicative or in the subjunctive.
Magistra ostendit hoc verbum in indicativo positum esse, illud autem in coniunctivo.
The teacher shows that this verb is placed in the indicative, but that one in the subjunctive.
Magistra rogat cur hoc verbum in coniunctivo, non in indicativo, positum sit.
The teacher asks why this verb has been placed in the subjunctive, not in the indicative.
Participium saepe ad nomen pertinet et quasi verbum et adiectivum simul continet.
A participle often belongs to a noun and in a way contains both a verb and an adjective at the same time.
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