perf

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Subjunctive, 1st pers. sing. pres. ta usu mia; 2d pers. sing. perf. avi epe usu mia.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

Heart-shaped, small perf.; fine green stone, jade or serpentine.

From American Antiquities Auction Catalogue, January 8, 1898 by Norman, Wm. B.

I love, imperf. tense, I loved; perf. tense, I have loved; and so on, through every mood and tense.

From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Kirkham, Samuel

Note the idiomatic use of the perf. partic. of a verb of motion after kommen, to express the manner of coming.

From Aus meinem Königreich by Sylva, Carmen

It must be cecīdit, perf. of caedo, and not cecĭdit, perf. of cado, which is intransitive. 8-9. agrosque et urbem est depopulatus = and laid waste our fields and our city.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund