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Deponimur

Deponimur is the first person plural present passive indicative form of the Latin verb deponere, meaning to lay down, place, or deposit. In standard usage, this form conveys being acted upon, as in “we are laid down” or “we are deposited.” The active counterpart is deponimus, meaning “we lay down” or “we deposit.”

Morphology and conjugation: deponere is a regular third-conjugation verb. Its present passive forms are deponor (I

Usage and context: deponimur appears in Latin prose and poetry when indicating that the subject is being

am
laid
down),
deponeris
(you
are
laid
down),
deponitur
(he/she/it
is
laid
down),
deponimur
(we
are
laid
down),
deponimini
(you
all
are
laid
down),
and
deponuntur
(they
are
laid
down).
Therefore,
deponimur
specifically
identifies
the
first-person
plural
subject
in
the
present
passive
voice.
laid
down
or
deposited
by
an
agent
or
circumstance.
It
is
not
a
deponent
verb;
its
passive
form
expresses
a
passive
voice
meaning
rather
than
an
inherently
active
sense.
The
form
is
primarily
of
interest
in
grammatical
analysis,
philology,
and
Latin-language
studies,
where
it
helps
illustrate
how
ordinary
transitive
verbs
produce
passive
forms
with
meanings
that
English
translates
with
the
passive
voice.