Present Tense: ducere

Level 2

The endings of ducere, and four verbs that follow it.

How It Works

The same endings serve scribo (write), lego (read), mitto (send), ago (do, drive) and bibo (drink).

The third person plural ends in -unt, not -ent: legunt, not legent. The second conjugation uses -ent: habent.

Ducit sounds like DOO-kit in classical Latin and DOO-cheet in Church Latin, because c comes before i. Duco is DOO-koh in both.

Marcus librum legit.
Marcus reads the book.
Legit is the third person singular of legere.
Iulia epistulam scribit.
Iulia writes a letter.
Scribit is the third person singular of scribere.
Nos aquam bibimus.
We drink water.
Bibimus is the first person plural of bibere.
Vos amicos ducitis.
You all lead the friends.
Ducitis is the second person plural.
Pueri libros legunt.
The boys read books.
Legunt is the third person plural, with -unt.

Writing the third person plural like the second conjugation.
Pueri legent librum.
Pueri legunt librum.
Legent is correct Latin, but it means they will read. For they read now, the third conjugation uses -unt.

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Present Tense: ducereLevel 2

The third family follows the first two with a joining vowel, so the first two families come first.

Patterns that build on this one.

duco

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