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Future Passive Participle
The future passive participle has a special status in Latin, because
it has both a grammatical quality but also a specific
semantic quality.
Grammar: Like other participles, the future passive
participle has a tense and a voice (future passive), and endings which
reflect case, number, and gender
Semantics: Unlike other participles, the future passive
participle conveys a particular kind of meaning: when something is expressed
with the future passive participle, it often conveys the feeling of "must
be -----ed" or "should be ------ed".
The most famous Roman example of the future passive participle is Cato
the Elder endlessly repeating to the Roman Senate: Carthago
delenda est, Carthage must be destroyed.
The future passive participle is sometimes referred to as the gerundive.
The future passive participle is formed from the present stem of the
verb; this means that you build the gerundive based on the 1st and 2nd
principle parts of the verb:
- amo, amare - amandus
- habeo, habere - habendus
- duco, ducere - ducendus
- capio, capere - capiendus
- audio, audire - audiendus
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