percutuntur

Percutuntur is the third-person plural present passive indicative form of the Latin verb percutere, meaning to strike, hit, or pierce. In the passive voice, the subject receives the action: “they are struck.”

Morphology and forms: Percutuntur is built from the present stem percut- plus the passive ending -untur, the standard ending for 3rd person plural present passive in Latin. The corresponding active form is percutunt ("they strike"). The infinitive is percutere, the perfect active is percussi, and the supine is percussum. This paradigm fits the regular pattern of 3rd conjugation -ere verbs, with the usual present passive endings: -or, -ris, -tur, -mur, -mini, -untur.

Usage: Percutuntur appears in Classical Latin in descriptions of physical blows or impacts, and it can extend to figurative senses in later Latin, where being affected or deeply affected by something can be described with the same verb form. It is a standard component of Latin narrative and descriptive prose and can be found across genres, including historical, legal, religious, and medical texts when describing an action in which subjects are struck or affected by an external force.

Notes: The form is strictly a present-tense, third-person plural passive; it does not convey mood or aspect beyond the present indicative. Learners should recognize the stem percut- and the characteristic -untur ending to identify this form in Latin inscriptions and texts.