Gerundives

Periphrastic to the Passive

Gerundives

• Gerundives are actually just another participle!

Forming Gerundives

• Using the present participle, take off the “-ns” and add “ndus”.

• Examples:– amans = amandus– videns = videndus– trahens = trahendus– capiens = capiendus– audiens = audiendus

Passive Periphrastic

• If you put a gerundive with a form of “to be” you get a passive periphrastic.

• nobis dormiendum est

• The “subject” of the phrase is in the dative, and the “direct object” is nominative and matched by the gerundive.

• matri servi puniendi sunt