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--- Scotto Hlad <scott.hlad@hidden.email> wrote:
> Thanks to you all for answering my query about
> estar vs. ser. How did French
> and others get away without having two?
Might it be an Iberian thing? I don't think
Romanian has it, and I don't think Italian has it
either. Of course, I could be wrong.
Padraic.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: romconlang@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:romconlang@yahoogroups.com]On
> Behalf Of Henrik Theiling
> Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 6:03 PM
> To: romconlang@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [romconlang] estar vs. ser
>
>
> 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
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