History of Latin language/Conjugation

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Conjugation is the creation of derived forms of a verb from one basic form. Conjugation may be affected by person, number, gender, tense, mood, voice, or some other language-specific factor or factors. When a verb is used to function as the action done by a subject, the verb must be conjugated in most languages.

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For example, here's a sample conjugation of the English verb to be and its Latin and French equivalent, esse and être.

For example, here's a sample conjugation of the English verb to be and its Latin and French equivalents, esse and être.

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to be in the present tense / esse

to be / esse / être

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être

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vous êtes

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Note that the similarity between English is and Latin est is not a mere coincidence, but rather one of the consequences of them having a distant common ancestor (see Indo-European languages).

Note that the similarity between English is and Latin est is not a mere coincidence, but rather one of the consequences of them having a distant common ancestor (see Indo-European languages). French is a derivative of Latin, which explains the much greater similarity in the way their conjugate this verb.

See also /Declension?

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	Revision 6 . . (edit) November 30, 2001 11:34 pm by Karl Palmen [Add link to conjugation]
	Revision 5 . . November 21, 2001 3:50 am by Uriyan [More elaboration]
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	Revision 2 . . November 20, 2001 4:58 am by Uriyan [Added Latin; shouldn't be at least a part of it moved to ROOT/Conjugation?]
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