Loquentes

Pluperfect Subjunctive Active

Historical Grammar

361. The perfect and the pluperfect subjunctive active are inflected as follows:

a. Observe that these two tenses, like the corresponding ones in the indicative, are formed from the perfect stem.

b. Observe that the perfect subjunctive active is like the future perfect indicative active, excepting that the first person singular ends in -m and not in .

c. Observe that the pluperfect subjunctive active may be formed by adding -issem, -issēs, etc. to the perfect stem.

d. In a similar way inflect the perfect and pluperfect subjunctive active of cūrō, iubeō, sūmō, iaciō, mūniō.

Pluperfect Subjunctive Active — amō (D'Ooge § 488)
PersonSingularPlural
1st Personamāvissemamāvissēmus
2nd Personamāvissēsamāvissētis
3rd Personamāvissetamāvissent

Loquentes Practice Reference

Our drill practices laudō, moneō, dūcō, audiō, and capiō. D'Ooge's historical paradigm above illustrates the tense with the canonical First Conjugation model amō.