Laboravimus
Laboravimus is a Latin verb form: the perfect indicative active of laborare, meaning “to work.” It translates as “we worked” or, depending on context, “we have worked.” The form comes from the 1st conjugation’s perfect stem laborav- plus the 1st plural ending -imus, yielding the 1st person plural perfect tense.
In Latin, the perfect tense generally marks a completed action relative to the time of speaking. It
- Laboravimus appears in texts to denote that a group performed work in the past.
- It is often accompanied by time expressions such as hodie (“today”) or heri (“yesterday”), or left
- Hodie in agro laboravimus. (Today we worked in the field.)
- Heri in oppido laboravimus. (We worked in the town yesterday.)
- The form is built from the verb laborare with a perfect stem laborav- and the ending -imus
See also: Latin verb conjugation, perfect tense, first conjugation.