![]() ![]() In subordinate clauses expressed by the accusative with the infinitive, it has indeed a definite subject but the infinitive can neither accommodate itself to the person nor to the number of the subject, unless the infinitive is compounded of a participle with esse, in which case the participle must agree with its subject in case, number, and gender.ΔΆ. The infinitive of the future simply represents an action as yet to come, whatever may be the point of time from which the action is viewed, amaturum esse and amatum iri. ![]() The infinitive of the perfect represents the action as completed, and serves as the infinitive both of the perfect and pluperfect-as amavisse and amatum (am, um) esse. The infinitive, both in the active and passive, has only three tenses the one, commonly called the infinitive of the present, simply represents an action in progress, and is therefore the infinitive not only of the present, but also of the past and the future-as amare and amari. The infinitive, from its meaning, may also be regarded as a verbal substantive, which, however, generally speaking, exists only in two cases, the nominative and the accusative, and differs: from other substantives by its governing the case of a verb. ![]() The infinitive expresses the action or condition implied in a verb in the form of an abstract generality. ![]()
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