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Romance Languages: verb tenses

The next in a series of short lessons on the basic grammar of the Romance languages. This one's about verb tenses & aspects in Vulgar Latin and Romance. The previous video on verbs demonstrated present tense endings across the Romance languages. Romance verbs also have two sets of past tense endings - the preterit for a one-time action and the imperfect for an ongoing action in the past. The Romance languages mark a difference between perfective (one-time) aspect and imperfective (ongoing) aspect. On top of that, Western Romance languages developed future tense endings by using the verb "have" after an infinitive: Vulgar Latin *cantare-as "you have to sing" turned into *cantaras "you will sing". Romanian, Romansh and Sardinian lack these endings, but they can build phrases for future events instead: Romanian 'vei cânta' "you will sing". "The Grammar of Romance" has an associated website (free) and book ($). Both of them offer even more explanations and examples: http://www.nativlang.com/romance-lang... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1475... Music by Kevin MacLeod