faciebas

Faciebas is a Latin verb form representing the second-person singular imperfect active indicative of facere, the verb meaning “to do” or “to make.” It corresponds to the English “you were making” or “you used to make.” Facere belongs to the third conjugation with the characteristic -io pattern in some forms; the imperfect forms include faciebam, faciebas, faciebat, faciebamus, faciebatis, faciebant, all built on the stem facie- plus personal endings.

In usage, the imperfect tense expresses an ongoing or repeated action in the past, provides background in a narrative, or describes habitual past activity. Faciebas is commonly found in clauses describing what someone was doing at a given time or what they habitually did in the past.

Example: Faciebas cenam. “You were making dinner.” Another example: Quid faciebas? “What were you doing?” These illustrate the sense of continuous or repeated action appropriate to the imperfect.

Notes: Faciebas is not a standalone lexical entry beyond its role as a conjugated form of facere. It demonstrates the regular -iebas ending of the imperfect for -io verbs, and it shares the same imperfect paradigm as related verbs formed from facere.

See also: facere; Latin verb conjugation; imperfect tense; -io verbs.