narraverunt

narraverunt is a Latin verb form meaning they told or they related. It is the third person plural perfect active indicative of narro, narrare, narravi, narratum (to tell, relate). The form is built from the perfect stem narrav- plus the personal ending -erunt, yielding the standard 3rd person plural ending for the perfect tense in regular 1st-conjugation verbs.

Grammatical notes: as a perfect active, narraverunt expresses a completed action in the past. In English, it is usually translated as “they told” or “they related.” Its usage is common in narrative and historical prose, where past events are recounted or reported.

Usage: narraverunt typically appears with a direct object specifying what was told or related, and can appear in direct or indirect discourse. For example, in a sentence about storytellers or historians, one might find figures such as “Puellae fabulas narraverunt” (The girls told/related stories) or “Narraverunt de bello magno” (They told about the great war).

Translation and nuance: while the core meaning is simply “they told,” the choice of English rendering may vary with context—“they related,” “they narrated,” or “they recounted.” The form is fully regular for the first conjugation, making it a standard example of the Latin perfect tense in narrative constructions.