The French language - Brossura

Roubaud, E.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1130290549 ISBN 13: 9781130290547

Casa editrice: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

Riassunto

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...manifold changes besides those already explained; new endings were formed, the roots were more or less modified, even the tonic accent was displaced; hence entirely new conjugations were formed, differing more or less from the Latin conjugations from which they had sprung. Some of these alterations are peculiar to certain conjugations; others are regularly found in all, and in order to avoid endless repetitions the latter will be explained here, and the other under the head of each of the conjugations to which they refer. § 2. Changes Common To All The Fbench Conjugations. In early French the 1st person singular had not a final, that s not existing in Latin; and so are found in old French, je croi, je sui, &c That s was added to this person only in the fourteenth century, ex 1 The cause of this displacement of the tonic accent is found in this, that the French tonic accent has two places--viz., the last syllable when the word does not end in e mute, the penult when it does (see page 9). cept, however--1, in the present indicative of avoir; 2, in the present and in the past indicative of the 1st conjugation; 3, in the futurel indicative, and in the present2 and imperfect subjunctive of all verbs. Final s is found in all verbs in all tenses in the 2nd person singular, and has been taken from Latin; the only exceptions are found in the imperative of avoir, of the verbs of the 1st conjugation, and of a few irregular verbs 3 of the 2nd and of the 3rd. Final t is found in the 3rd person singular, and was taken from Latin. However, it has been suppressed--1, from the present indicative of avoir; 2, from the same tense of the first conjugation; 3, from the future of all verbs, it being formed from the present indicative of avoir. This t is not found either...

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• Editore: RareBooksClub.com
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1130290549
• ISBN 13: 9781130290547
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 42
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