essem

essem is a Latin form of sum, meaning “be, exist; (as auxiliary) is, are, was”. It is the 1st person singular imperfect active subjunctive.

Found 461 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 1.1.31: … ata accusatione rem integram ad M. Metellum praetorem esse venturam. quem ego hominem, si eius fidei diffisus essem, iudicem non retinuissem;

Martial, Epigrammata 7.86.2: Essem cum tibi, Sexte, non amicus:

All forms of sum (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.