narravi

narravi is the first-person singular perfect active indicative form of the Latin verb narrare, meaning “to tell” or “to relate.” In English, narravi is usually rendered as “I narrated” and can convey a completed past action, or, in some contexts, a present perfect sense.

As a member of the first conjugation, narravi follows the standard perfect tense endings for -are verbs: narravi, narravisti, narravit, narravimus, narravistis, narraverunt. The present infinitive is narrare, and the past participle is narratus. Passive voice forms would use the appropriate auxiliary plus the participle, such as narratus sum for “I have been narrated” in contexts where a passive reading is possible.

Usage-wise, narravi occurs in narrative and historical prose to describe actions completed in the past. It typically takes a direct object in the accusative (for example, Historiam narravi, “I narrated a history”) and may introduce reported speech or a sequence of events. The form is common in classical Latin texts and appears in a wide range of genres, from history and oratory to fiction.

Etymologically, narravi derives from narrare, with the -avi suffix marking the perfect tense in the Latin 1st conjugation. Cognates exist across Romance languages, reflecting a shared Latin origin for past narrative forms.

Note: outside of Latin grammar, “narravi” is not widely recognized as a modern proper noun or established term, and its meaning is predominantly confined to its grammatical role as a verb form in Latin.