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Re: Valentine's Day Translations

From:dunn patrick w <tb0pwd1@...>
Date:Thursday, February 11, 1999, 19:27
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> >Latin: Te amo > > Is it not: Te amam, or am I inventing a new conjugation for Latin verbs?
Sorta kinda. -m is a common 1st person ending. However, in the present tense, -o is the proper 1st person ending and the -a- stem vowel collapses into it (screaming in terror! Oh, no, don't let the o get me! ahhhhhhh! I'm faaaaaaalling!). --Pat