Active Tenses:
Present Tense
The present tense expresses an action which is continuing and is thus imperfect. This is the most basic verb form. Now if someone wants to stress the fact that the action is present progressive, one can use the verb esse (to be) + the active participle.
I am hearing - audio or sum audiente
Past Imperfect
The past imperfect tense expresses an action progressing in the past but not necessarily completed. The sentence "I was loving" would be expressed in Latin as amabam and in greek as ephiloun. Now this could be expressed in Vulgare using the perfect form of esse + the active participle. It could also be expressed by incorporating the Greek prefix e- which expresses past events.
I was hearing - e-audio or fui audiente
Future
In romance languages, the future tense of Latin was dropped and a new construction developed using the infinitive + habere (to hold, have). Thus you have the French future verai from ver (to see) + ai (I have) = I hold to seeing, I will see. Also, modern languages often use the helping verb ire (to go) + the infinitive. Either forms would work, but if contracting, I would suggest using an apostrophe to better represent the origin of the construct.
I will hear - io/habeo audire or audir'eo where audir'eo = audire + habeo
I'm dropping the Latin active future participle for the following:
auditurus (L.) --> iente/habente audire or audir'ente
Present Perfect
This tense shows that a verb has been currently completed, and although the perfective form is sufficient to express this, one may also want a simpler way to express this concept that corresponds to the developments in modern Romance languages and modern Greek. Over time, the Latin perfect participle transitioned into a passive participle, but it still retained part of its original role when complexed with the verb habere (to have). In French, for instance, saying "J'ai vu la fille" literally meant "I hold the girl seen." I believe modern Greek also has this development using have - echo. This can be easily incorporated into Vulgare.
I have heard - audavi or habeo/echo audito
The perfect participle can be formed as the following structure:
habente/echente audito
Pluperfect
This can be formed in a couple of ways paralleling forms above:
I had heard - e-audavi or habui audito
Future Perfect
You may get the drift. There are more options than the one below:
I will have heard - haber'eo audito
Passive:
Present
We have a conjugation for passive verbs, but one can also use the passive participle.
I am heard - audior or sum audito
Past Imperfect
I was heard - e-audior or fui audito
Future
I will be heard - io/habeo esse audito or ess'eo audito
Perfect
For the perfect forms, we may need a perfect participle of the verb esse (to be), maybe something as simple as eta/o. Thus one comes upon the following.
I have been heard - habeo/echo eto audito
Since the Latin perfect participle transitioned into a present passive participle, as we have in Vulgare, the new perfect participle would be made similar to the formation above.
auditus (L.) --> habente/echente eto audito
Pluperfect
I had been heard - habui eto audito
Future Perfect
I will have been heard - haber'eo eto audito
There may be a few kinks in the schema above. Nothing's final.
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