habuimus

habuimus is the first-person plural perfect active indicative form of the Latin verb habere, meaning to have. It denotes a completed state in the past and is commonly translated as “we had.” In contexts where English uses the present perfect, it can also carry a “we have had” sense, but in classical Latin it is primarily a past tense.

Morphology: The perfect of habere is formed on the stem habu- with the standard perfect endings. For the first person plural the ending is -imus, producing habuimus. The full perfect paradigm of habere is habuī, habuistī, habuit, habuimus, habuistis, habuērunt. The verb belongs to the second conjugation; in the present it appears as habeō, habēs, habet, habēmus, habētis, habent, while the perfect replaces the present stem vowels with the -u- infix and the -imus ending for the 1st person plural.

Usage: Habuimus expresses a completed past state or action. It is used to indicate possession in the past (for example, litteras habuimus, “we had letters”) and to recount past experiences or circumstances. In narrative, it functions as the simple past; English renders it as “we had” and, depending on context, sometimes as “we have had.”

Example: Litteras habuimus. Translation: “We had letters” (or, in a present-perfect sense, “We have had letters” depending on context).

See also: habēre, Latin verbs, and the Latin perfect tense for related forms and usage.