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Hi!
Padraic Brown <elemtilas@hidden.email> writes:
> --- 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.
Italian mainly uses essere, yes, but the perfect participle is still
taken from 'stare' ('stato'). Anyway, there are situations where
'stare' is similar to Sp. 'estar': 'stare simpatico' means 'to be
likable'.
Romanian is funny in retaining 'fieri' in the copula forms, but I also
seem to recall it only has retained one verb.
And wrt. to French, I think I read that the two verbs become very
similar in Old French and then collapsed into one verb.
Overviews for quite some Romance langs can be found at:
http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/
**Henrik