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We have seen how the pluperfect is translated as 'I had x-ed' in the active form.

For all verbs to form the pluperfect you need to have

the perfect stem + the imperfect of t...

A verb in the pluperfect can be either active or passive.

When a verb is in the active form it is translated as 'I had x-ed' in the firs...

In the GCSE Latin language papers you will inevitably come across some sentences that require a bit more attention and care to render an appropriate translation. Although these sentences may appear int...

In Latin, the future participle literally means being about to X or on the point of doing X. It is active, and has the form:amaturus, amatura, amaturumThe best way of spotting the future...

So ablative absolutes can seem scary because they sit there apart from the rest of the sentence, but they're actually super easy! Translating them isn't difficult at all.

They can be tran...