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fuerunt

fuerunt is a Latin form of sum, meaning “be, exist; (as auxiliary) is, are, was”. It is the 3rd person plural perfect active indicative.

Found 754 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.29.3: Summa omnium fuerunt ad milia CCCLXVIII. Eorum qui domum redierunt censu habito, ut Caesar imperaverat, repertus est numerus milium C et X.

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 6.5.3: Fuerunt quibus haec eius oratio ut sera et intempestiva et praepostera displiceret, quae omisso contra dicendi tempore castigaret peractum, cui potuisset occurrere.

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.