essemus

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

Found 106 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.30: … dum maxime adpositos, reliquum omne tempus huius anni me vobis remissurum putastis, ut, cum horis nostris nos essemus usi, tu binis ludis interpositis quadragesimo post die responderes, deinde ita tempus duceretur ut a M’. Glab …

Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.551: Essemus miseri sine crimine, sorsque querenda,

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.