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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Collier" <petecollier@...>
wrote:
>
> Does anyone have details of the complete VL conjugation of STARE
> (or more complete than me at least)? I have the following active
> present indicative forms:
>
> 1S stao
> 2S stais
> 3S stait
> 1P ?
> 2P ?
> 3P staunt
>
> but that's all I can find! As to the perfect indicative or
> present/perfect subjunctive forms, I have no idea :(
>
>
> P.
Those look wrong to me. Where did you get them? Based mainly on CL
and Spanish (French and Italian seem to be more innovative with
endings), for the present, I'd think it was more like:
Pres.Ind. Pres.Subj.
1S estó(+ i?) esté
2S estás estés
3S estát estét
1P estamos estemos
2P estates estetes
3P estánt estént
I've included some analogy in the subjunctive; otherwise, 1S, 3S, and
3P would have E instead of é (plus n in 1S). You didn't ask for the
imperfect forms, but they look perfectly regular.
The perfect tenses are harder: Italian has contractions while Spanish
has replaced the stem and (modern) French is useless here. So I hope
you can handle a large amount of sodium chloride.
Perf.Ind. Plup.Subj.
1S estEti estetesse
2S estetesti estetesses
3S estEtet estetesset
1P estEtemos estetessemos
2P estetestes estetessetes
3P estEteront estetessent
I'm using the pluperfect subjunctive instead of the perfect because
the latter has reflexes only in Portuguese (and I don't know what
they are).
Another thing to note: I'm assuming a rather late variety of VL which
excludes the ancestor of Sardinian. The vowels may not be totally
right for the Romanian branch, or even Portuguese.
Jeff