faciebatis

Faciebatis is a Latin verb form: the second person plural imperfect indicative active of facere, meaning “you were making” or “you were doing.” It belongs to the third conjugation of -io verbs.

Morphology and form: Facere supplies the present stem fac-; in the imperfect indicative the endings for -io verbs are -iebam, -iebas, -iebat, -iebamus, -iebatis, -iebant. Therefore faciebatis combines fac- with -iebatis to yield the form for “you (plural) were making/doing.” The related forms in the same tense include faciebam (I was making), faciebas (you were making), faciebat, faciebamus, and faciebant.

Usage: Faciebatis expresses ongoing or repeated past action. It is used when describing what the subjects were doing at a past time or what they used to do habitually. It can appear in historical narratives, dialogues, or descriptive passages where an ongoing past action is distinguished from a completed past action.

Examples:

- Quid faciebatis heri? — What were you doing yesterday?

- Dum librum legis, amici tibi faciebatis socius, et interea vidisti? — While you were reading the book, what were your friends doing, and did you see?

Notes: As the standard imperfect form, faciebatis appears in classical and medieval Latin texts wherever an ongoing past action involving “you” (plural) is described. It is part of the standard paradigm for facere, the fundamental verb “to do/make,” in its third-conjugation -io subclass.