User talk:Iainmarais

Hi,

I am rather interested in languages, mainly the latin language and its decendants, and their history.

One thing continues to elude me though: the original conjugation of the old french copular verb: ester - equivalent to stare (italian) and estar (spanish/portuguese).

1. My question is this:How would its conjugation table look for all the forms it can take?

2. Would the equivalent old french form of portuguese "estou" be estuis?

These things elude me still.

I would appreciate any help and other insight into this particular copular verb and how it once was used before it merged with estre (also spelled être). Iain

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Hi, thanks for adding this. You should check out the formatting changes I made here. Wiktionary is pretty highly structured, so working on proper formatting is almost as important as accurate linguistic content. Thanks :) —  [Ric Laurent] — 13:35, 16 November 2011 (UTC)