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164. Passive Personal Endings. In the passive voice we use a different set of personal endings. They are as follows:

Sing.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	1. -r, I	Plur.	1. -mur, we
		2. -ris, -re, you		2. -minī, you
		3. -tur, he, she, it		3. -ntur, they

a. Observe that the letter -r appears somewhere in all but one of the endings. This is sometimes called the passive sign.

		amō, amāre	monēo, monēre
		Pres. Stem amā-	Pres. Stem monē-
		Present Indicative		Personal Endings
Sing.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	a´mor, I am loved	mo´neor, I am advised	-or[1]
		amā´ris or amā´re, you are loved	monē´ris or monē´re, you are advised	-ris or -re
		amā´tur, he is loved	monē´tur, he is advised	-tur
Plur.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	amā´mur, we are loved	monē´mur, we are advised	-mur
		amā´minī, you are loved	monē´minī, you are advised	-mini
		aman´tur, they are loved	monen´tur, they are advised	-ntur
		Imperfect Indicative (Tense Sign -bā-)
Sing.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	amā´bar, I was being loved	monē´bar, I was being advised	-r
		amābā´ris or amābā´re, you were being loved	monēbā´ris or monēbā´re, you were being advised	-ris or -re
		amābā´tur, he was being loved	monēbā´tur, he was being advised	-tur
Plur.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	amābā´mur, we were being loved	monēbā´mur, we were being advised	-mur
		amābā´minī, you were being loved	monēbā´minī, you were being advised	-minī
		amāban´tur, they were being loved	monēban´tur, they were being advised	-ntur

1. In the present the personal ending of the first person singular is -or.