causabas

Causabas is a Latin verb form, representing the second-person singular imperfect active indicative of a first-conjugation verb formed with the stem caus- and the thematic vowel a, yielding the ending -bas. In proper orthography it appears as causābas, with a long a indicated by the macron. The imperfect tense describes a past action that was ongoing, repeated, or customary at the time referenced, equivalent in English to “you were causing” or “you used to cause.”

The lexical source for causabas is the verb causāre or its related causāre- root meaning “to cause; to bring about.” As a standard imperfect form, causabas follows regular first-conjugation paradigms and can appear in clauses expressing background action, narration, or description within a past scene.

In usage, causabas functions like other imperfect forms to convey continuance or habit in the past rather than a completed single event. The meaning shifts with context and the surrounding noun phrases or subordinate clauses. For example, in a sentence such as mihi dolorem causabas, the translation would be “you were causing me pain.”

Related forms include causāo (I cause), causās (you cause) in the present tense; causābat (he/she/it was causing); and other persons and tenses derived from the same verb root. Causabas therefore sits within Latin’s broader system for expressing imperfect, narrative, and aspectual nuance, illustrating how past actions are conveyed in a language with rich verbal morphology.