Re: Valentine's Day Translations (fwd)

At 09:06 11/02/99 -0500, you wrote:
>--On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 8:45 AM +0100 Christophe Grandsire
><Christophe.Grandsire@...> wrote:
>
>>> Latin: Te amo
>>
>>         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
>
>
        Okay, so I forgot that (damn, only 5 years since I stopped Latin classes
and I already forgot the first conjugation!).

                                                        Christophe Grandsire
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