The Imperfect Subjunctive
www.stcharlesprep.org › 01_parents › oneil_jThe imperfect tense of the subjunctive expresses potential action or non-factual actionfrom the viewpoint of the past tense. In English, the helping verbs might and would are used to express the imperfect subjunctive. In Latin, the imperfect subjunctive is almost always used in a subordinate clause; there is no hortatory subjunctive which uses the imperfect tense.
How to Form and Translate the Subjunctive Mood in Latin and ...
www.brighthubeducation.com › learning-translatingDec 08, 2008 · This fact often gives Latin students trouble in identifying the mood’s forms. This is just one more reason why being able to identify a verb’s conjugation in any of its forms is crucial to proper translation. Only four Latin tenses have subjunctive forms: the present, imperfect, perfect, and pluperfect. There are no subjunctive forms for the future and future perfect tenses, so the number of forms is fewer, making it easier to memorize the conjugations.