LC II Lesson 2

[hejaj]

3rd edition book---On Exercise B #1:
"We are preparing dinner."
If the irregular verb (to be verb) ending 1st person plural is sumus,
why is this sentence translated "Cenam paramus."?
Why is the word not translated as parasumus?
Thanks
Learning With My Children

[mcyoder]

Look back on page 8 and 9 of your teacher's book. The present tense in Latin includes both the emphatic (I do prepare.) and the progressive (I am preparing.) Paramus is translated three ways: We prepare. We do prepare. We are preparing. We don't use helping verbs for these in Latin. Hope this helps.
-Martha