Golds are 7 . 1 VSS <| sep |> yes and no you ' ll have to memorize them , but there are so many patterns and repetitions , it ' s not tough to pick up on them with practice . remember , classical latin is a literary language based on spoken language , so you ' ll find perhaps more regularity than one might expect from such a massive amount of possible endings , or even moreso than you might see in any of the surviving vulgar latin dialects . to expand on what the verb patterns from earlier remember the personal endings . to go along with personal endings are theme vowels , and other indicators of function , tense , and mood . from the personal endings m , s , t , mus , tis , nt with the ending o being reserved for first person singular only in a few cases , you can pick up on the patternamare stem am , theme vowel a this tells you that theme vowel ' a ' indicates indicative . therefore a m o a m a S a m aTamaMUSamaTISamaNTchange the theme vowel to an e to get s u b j u n c t i v e a m e M a m e SameTameMUSameTISameNTadd the ba infix after the theme vowel to get imperfect past t e n s e a m a b a M a m a b a S a m a b a T a mabaMUSamabaTISamabaNTand so on . there are plenty of variations to be sure , but notice here that we had six personal endings and derived eighteen possible conjugations by understanding how the pieces fit together .