Re: Remnant of the future

On 2024-03-31, Ruud Harmsen <rh@rudhar.com> wrote:

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"the only trace of [the Latin future tense] is one form, in one
language, with a different function, namely Spanish eres ‘you are’
(sing.), "
>
Fascinating!

To the degree that the Latin verb system made it into the Romance
languages, Spanish has preserved the endings fairly well.  The most
glaring difference is the loss of final -t.  That of course turned
"es/est" into "es/es", so it is not surprising that a new form was
found to disambiguate second from third person.  I thought "eres"
was influenced by the imperfect, but a borrowing from the future
tense is plausible.

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