sum, _am_ esse ---- ----
----, _become_, _get_, _am_ fore fuī ----
For #fuam#, &c., #forem#, &c., #fore#, see 750. #fuī#, &c., serves as
the perfect system of #sum#.
pos-sum, _can_ pos-se ---- ----
----, _can_ ---- potuī ----
#potuī#, &c., serves as the perfect system of #possum#. Of the present
system of #potuī#, only #potēns#, _powerful_, is used, and only as an
adjective.
dō, _give_, _put_ dare dedī datus
For compounds, see 757.
bibō, _drink_ bibere bibī pōtus
So the compounds, with the reduplication preserved in the perfect system
(860).
serō, _sow_ serere sēvī satus
Compounds have #i# for #a# in the perfect participle: as, #cōn-situs#.
sistō, _set_ sistere -stitī, status
rarely stitī
inquam, _quoth I_ ---- inquiī once ----
eō, _go_ īre iī, itum, -itus
very rarely īvī
queō, _can_ quīre quīvī quitus
ne-queō, _can’t_ ne-quīre ne-quīvī ne-quitus
edō, _eat_ ēsse ēdī ēsus
volō, _will_, velle voluī ----
_wish_, _want_
nōlō, _won’t_ nōlle nōluī ----
mālō, _like better_ mālle māluī ----
ferō, _carry_ ferre (tulī) (lātus)
For #tulī#, old #tetulī#, and #lātus#, see 780; for the perfect of
#re-ferō#, 861.
(B.) VERBS IN #-ere#.
(A.) PERFECT STEM WITHOUT A SUFFIX.
923. (1 _a_.) The following verbs in #-ere# have a reduplicated perfect
stem (858), and the perfect participle, when used, in #-tus#: