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hmm, where does "fieri" come from? It reminds me of the preterit in
Spanish of ser (and ir) [fui, fuiste, fue, fuimos, fuisteis(?),
fueron] are they related?
--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...> writes:
> > --- Scotto Hlad <scott.hlad@...> 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
>