There's a minor terminological slip about Latin. The form laudavi should not be called present perfect in Latin even though the name in Latin was preteritum perfectum. This corresponds to the simple past in English because it denotes a single event in the past, whereas the English present perfect is exactly the opposite: its time is unspecified.
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There's a minor terminological slip about Latin. The form laudavi should not be called present perfect in Latin even though the name in Latin was preteritum perfectum. This corresponds to the simple past in English because it denotes a single event in the past, whereas the English present perfect is exactly the opposite: its time is unspecified.
Very well explained as always.
Thanks alot
Thank you, professor
way better than my teacher