The word "conjugation" comes from the Latin coniugātiō, a calque of the Greek συζυγία ( syzygia), literally "yoking together (horses into a team)".įor simple verb paradigms, see the Wiktionary appendix pages for first conjugation, second conjugation, third conjugation, and fourth conjugation. The number of conjugations of regular verbs is usually said to be four. Thus all those Latin verbs which have 1st singular -ō, 2nd singular -ās, and infinitive -āre are said to belong to the 1st conjugation, those with 1st singular -eō, 2nd singular -ēs and infinitive -ēre belong to the 2nd conjugation, and so on. The second meaning of the word conjugation is a group of verbs which all have the same pattern of inflections. It may be affected by person, number, gender, tense, mood, aspect, voice, or other language-specific factors. One meaning is the creation of derived forms of a verb from basic forms, or principal parts. In terms of linguistics and grammar, conjugation has two basic meanings.
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