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Hi! Scotto Hlad writes: > Hello, > > How did estar and ser come to be separate verbs in languages such as > Portuguese, Spanish and Galician? French seems to combine them in etre > (which no doubt would have been estre in older times). Did I miss something > in high-school Latin class? Or is this more a function of Vulgar Latin that > I missed out on as well? Well, estar < L. stare, ser < PRom. *essere < L. esse. They were two verbs in Latin. Or is it not this simple bit of information you were looking for and instead, you are aiming at a somewhat more deep analysis? **Henrik