Translation
ever, at any time
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Examples
Vidistine ?
Have you ever seen such things?
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I have never seen him.
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If he ever returns, we shall rejoice.
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There has hardly ever been such a war.
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And he never came back afterwards.
Umquam is not a free-standing "ever". It belongs to negative, conditional, interrogative and comparative clauses - after non, nec, si, num, vix, and after a comparison - and in a plain positive statement Latin reaches for aliquando or simply uses the tense. Get this wrong and the sentence reads as translated English.
Non umquam is the emphatic version of numquam, which is nothing but ne plus umquam worn together. The spelling unquam is standard in manuscripts and appears throughout this corpus; it is the same word, the m assimilating before the following consonant. The parallel formation for place is usquam, "anywhere", which follows exactly the same rules.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 5, lesson 2: umquam, extremus, sedes and 6 more words.