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  • TheEmpireStrikesDak
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    9 hours ago

    Nerd time, sorry.

    Does Latin have two different types of “to be” like Portuguese, Spanish (and maybe Italian?). French collapsed them into one, pretty similar to your Latin above.
    Suis, es, est, sommes, êtes, sont!
    But I’m wondering why the other Latin languages have different versions of be. When I started learning Portuguese, I realised why être had such a weird conjugation. It looked like a mashup of ser and estar. Anyway, I’m too lazy to look it up, so I will continue to wonder.

    Nerd moment out.