Stage 38 Perfect Subjunctive

A brief introduction to the perfect subjunctive as told in the Cambridge Latin Course in Stage 38.

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[Remember5thONovember]

@Remember5thONovember Thus forming the Perfect Active Subjunctive is easy: its Future Perfect using M instead of O, and it gains long vowels on the 2nd, 4th, and 5th. "laudaverim, laudaverIs, laudaverit / laudaverImus, laudaverItis, laudaverint"

[Remember5thONovember]

@Remember5thONovember 4 - Perfect Passive is large the same, it just shifts to using the Subjunctive forms of Sum. Thus Perfect Passive Subjunctive is straightforward, its “laudatus sim” using subj. of sum.

Perfect Active Subjunctive becomes very easy if you think of it like this: its just the forms of the “Future Perfect Indicative” with the Subjunctive Rules applied to it (as an active and a perfect, rules 3 and 4 don't apply).

[Remember5thONovember]

This might not be standard, but I had my own succinct way of getting a handle on the complicated Perfect Subjunctive:

The entire Subjunctive Mood can be summed up in 4 rules: 1 - it consistently uses -"M" instead of "-O" for 1st sg active. 2 - The long-vowel macron shifts (on the 2nd, 4th, and 5th out of 6 forms) which don't appear in all Indicatives, are consistently used by all Subjunctives, Active or Passive. 3 - Present System gains long 3rd sg Macron vowel *throughout*(unlike Indicative