aedificabamus

Aedificabamus is a Latin verb form, the first-person plural imperfect active indicative of the verb aedificare, meaning to build. In translation it corresponds to “we were building” or “we used to build.” The form is characteristic of the first conjugation.

Morphology and form: Aedificabamus is built from the stem aedific- plus the imperfect marker -ā-b- and the 1st person plural ending -mus, yielding the standard pattern aedificābāmus. In ordinary spelling the macron over the long ā is often omitted, giving aedificabamus.

Usage: The imperfect tense describes ongoing or repeated past action, background situations, or habitual past activities in narrative prose. It is common in classical Latin texts and in didactic or descriptive passages, where it conveys duration or customary action in the past.

Conjugation notes: Aedificare belongs to the first conjugation. Other imperfect forms of the same verb include aedificābam (I was building), aedificābās (you were building), aedificābat (he/she/it was building), aedificābāmus (we were building), aedificābātis (you all were building), and aedificābant (they were building). The non-imperfect forms follow the regular patterns of the first conjugation.

Etymology: The verb derives from aedificium, meaning building or structure, with the standard -are verb suffix to form aedificare (“to build”). The noun aedificium and related terms share the same semantic field of construction and dwellings.

Example: Nos aedificabamus domum. We were building a house.