IS: Lesson - Participles - The Future Active Participle

The Future Active Participle

The future active participle is used when the action of the participle occurs after the action of the independent clause. The noun being modified is the performer of the action. The Future Active Participle is the formed using the 4th Principal Part. The future active participle is translated in English using the phrase about/going to _____. The student in this picture is going to ask a question.

Review: The Participle Stem

To be able to successfully form the Future Active Participle, we will need to use the participle stem, first seen when learning the perfect passive participle. It is formed by removing the -us ending from the 4th Principal Part. Example:

amo, amare, amavi, amatus
- 4th PP = amatus
- Participle stem: amatus - us = amat-

Formation

The future active participle is formed by adding the letters -ur to the Participle Stem, followed by 1st and 2nd declension adjective endings. Because it uses 1st/2nd declension endings, the masculine, feminine and neuter forms will all have their own forms. The future active participle has a dictionary entry with three forms: masculine (us), feminine (a), neuter (um) - all nominative singular. The remaining 1st/2nd declension endings will be added to the Future Participle Base (feminine form - a).

Example

amo, amare, amavi, amatus
- Participle Stem: amat-
- Add -ur to stem: amatur-
- Add -us, -a, -um
  - amaturus, amatura, amaturum - about to love
Future Participle Base: amatura - a
- amatur-

**Forming the Future Active Participle**
Participle Stem + ur	Future Active Participle	Future Participle Base
Participle stem: amat + ur = amatur- Participle stem: vis + ur = visur- Participle stem: duct + ur = ductur- Participle stem: capt + ur = captur- Participle stem: audit + ur = auditur-	Add -us, a, um amaturus, amatura, amaturum visurus, visura, visurum ducturus, ductura, ducturum capturus, captura, capturum auditurus, auditura, auditurum	Feminine form - a amatura - a = amatur- visura - a = visur- ductura - a = ductur- captura - a = captur- auditura - a = auditur-

N.B. FutURe participles have an adjective base ending in -UR. If you see -ur, think future. The English word future derives from the future participle for the verb sum, esse, fui: futurus.

Future Active Participle Endings Chart

The chart below contains a full list of forms of the future active participle for amo, amare, amavi, amatus - to love.

**Future Active Participle Example**
Case	Masculine		Feminine		Neuter
Number	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural
Nominative	amaturus	amaturi	amatura	amaturae	amaturum	amatura
Genitive	amaturi	amaturorum	amaturae	amaturarum	amaturi	amaturorum
Dative	amaturo	amaturis	amaturae	amaturis	amaturo	amaturis
Accusative	amaturum	amaturos	amaturam	amaturas	amaturum	amatura
Ablative	amaturo	amaturis	amatura	amaturis	amaturo	amaturis