faciebat

Faciebat is a Latin verb form meaning that the action of making or doing was taking place in the past. It is the imperfect active indicative, third person singular, of the verb facere, “to do” or “to make.”

Morphology and conjugation: faciebat is built from the present stem fac- of facere, with the 3rd-io imperfect ending -iebat, which marks the imperfect aspect for these verbs. The imperfect indicates an ongoing or repeated past action. Other persons in the same tense include faciebam (I was making), faciebas (you were making), faciebamus (we were making), faciebatis (you pl. were making), and faciebant (they were making). The infinitive is facere, and the perfect has the form fēcit.

Usage: faciebat is used to describe continuous past actions or habitual past actions within narratives or descriptions. Its translation depends on context and can be rendered as “he was making,” “he used to make,” or, in some contexts, “he made” when the past is viewed as a background for another action.

Examples:

- Caesar faciebat arma. Translation: Caesar was making weapons.

- Pater consilium faciebat. Translation: The father was making a plan (or The father used to make a plan).

Related forms and notes: Facere has a range of related forms across tenses and voices, with imperfect forms sharing the same -iebat pattern for -io verbs. Faciebat illustrates how Latin marks imperfect aspect within the active voice in narrative and descriptive text.