Chapter 165 Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar Dickinson College Christopher Francese

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Every form of the finite verb is made up of two parts:

The STEM (see § 24 ). This is either the root or a modification or development of it. The ENDING, consisting of— the Signs of Mood and Tense (see §§ 168 , 169). the Personal Ending (see § 163 ).

Thus in the verb vocā-bā-s , you were calling , the root is VOC, modified into the verb-stem vocā- , which by the addition of the ending -bās becomes the imperfect tense vocābās ; and this ending consists of the tense-sign bā- and the personal ending ( -s ) of the second person singular.

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