Re: latin verb examples and tense meanings
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Monday, January 17, 2000, 22:03 |
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> It's logical: when you "went" somewhere, you "have been" there.
Hmm, interesting. Of course, _ser_ can no longer be used for being in a
place in Spanish, that's been taken over by _estar_ (and in at least
some dialects, I hear, by _quedarse_), so the original justification has
been lost.
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