currebamus

Currebamus is the first-person plural imperfect active indicative form of the Latin verb curro, currere, cucurri, cursus, meaning “to run.” The principal translation of currebamus is “we were running” or “we used to run.” The imperfect tense describes ongoing or repeated past action rather than a completed event.

Morphology and forms: In the imperfect, Latin supplies the suffixes -ba- with personal endings. The forms for curro are currebam, currebas, currebat, currebamus, currebatis, currebant. Currebamus, the form of interest here, means “we were running.”

Usage and context: Currebamus appears in Classical Latin texts to describe continuous or customary past activity. It is commonly found in narrative sequences or reported speech to set scene or background action. The verb is part of a broader family built from curro, a root associated with movement and speed, and it shares semantic fields with related nouns such as cursus (course) and cursor (runner).

Etymology and related forms: Curro derives from Latin roots for running and motion. Related descendants include terms in Latin morphology such as currere (to run) and cognate compounds and derivatives like cursus (course) and cursor (runner). In English, the sense of running or a course of events echoes the same Latin lineage through words like current or course, though these derivatives have diverged in meaning.

Example: Pueri in campo currebamus. Translation: The boys were running in the field.