sumus

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

Found 1,049 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 8.0.8: Mihi ne illud quidem accidit, ut Alexandrino atque Africano bello interessem; quae bella quamquam ex parte nobis Caesaris sermone sunt nota, tamen aliter audimus ea, quae rerum novitate aut admiratione nos capiunt, aliter, quae pro testimonio sumus dicturi.

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 2.14.14: Nos tamen adhuc et utilitas amicorum et ratio aetatis moratur ac retinet; veremur enim ne forte non has indignitates reliquisse, sed laborem fugisse videamur. Sumus tamen solito rariores, quod initium est gradatim desinendi. Vale.

Plautus, Captivi 2.1.203: At nós pudet, quia cúm catenis súmus.

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.