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Latin Grammar: The Present Subjunctive

De sua autem virtute et natura diversi diversa posuerunt, quid autem de hoc sentiant medici, patere potest per haec verba, argentum (inquit Platearius) [Livre des simples medecines, ed. Malandin p. 249] vivum, calidum dicitur esse et humidum in gradu quarto, quamvis a quibusdam iudicetur frigidum et in eodem gradu, et quod sit calidum ostenditur per effectum, eo quod dissoluit, penetrat et incidit, sed quia actualiter sentitur multum frigidum abusive frigidum iudicatur.

The Present Subjunctive
Two of the verbs in this passage (sentiant and sit) are in the present active subjunctive. Complete the chart below for the regular verb sentire and the irregular verb esse.

Remember that to conjugate a fourth conjugation verb in the present active subjunctive, you add -ia to the stem, then the person endings. Remember also that esse is irregular. The first person singular is done for you.

sentio, sentire
  singular plural
1. sentiam
2.
3.
sum, esse
  singular plural
4. sim
5.
6.

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