Valentine's Day Translations (fwd)
| From: | Tony Harris <tony.harris@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 11, 1999, 14:06 |
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--On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 8:45 AM +0100 Christophe Grandsire
<Christophe.Grandsire@...> wrote:
>> Latin: Te amo
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> Is it not: Te amam, or am I inventing a new conjugation for Latin
> verbs?
No, "te amo" is correct. The present of amare (to love) is:
amo,amas,amat,amamus,amatis,amant.
The original IE -m is replaced with the -o ending in a number of tenses in
Latin, incuding the present indicative, if I remember correctly.
Tony Harris
Community College of Vermont
tony.harris@ccvtest.ccv.vsc.edu