Go: eo, ire

Level 3

Go, with endings of its own.

How It Works

Is also means he (Level 3), so the sentence shows whether you have the verb or the pronoun. Quo is? means Where are you going?

Other tenses: ibam (I was going) and ibo (I will go). The forms of eo are short, so learn them by heart.

Eo also hides inside longer verbs. Exeo (I go out), redeo (I go back) and introeo (I go in) all use the same endings.

Marcus ad forum it.
Marcus goes to the forum.
It is the he form of eo. Ad forum means to the forum.
Ite, pueri!
Go, boys!
Ite is the command to several people.
Quo is, Iulia?
Where are you going, Iulia?
Quo asks where to, and is is the you form of eo.
In ecclesiam imus.
We go into the church.
Imus is the we form, and in ecclesiam is in plus the accusative: into the church.
Ite in pace.
Go in peace.
One of the dismissals at the end of Mass. Ite is a command, and in pace is in plus the ablative.

Making eo regular.
Pueri iunt.
Pueri eunt.
Eo is irregular. They go is eunt.
Leaving out the preposition.
Marcus forum it.
Marcus ad forum it.
To say where you go to, use ad or in with the accusative. Only town names and a few other words go without a preposition.

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Go: eo, ireLevel 3

Eo is irregular beside the regular present tenses and has the commands i and ite, so the present tenses and commands come first.

Patterns that build on this one.

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