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52: French verbs: all about stress

When learning French, I loved the verbs 'parler' (to talk) and 'aimer' (to love) because they were entirely regular. A thousand years ago, I wouldn't have been that happy. At that time, 'parler' was irregular too: people said 'il/ele parole', not 'il/elle parle'. And it wasn't 'aimer' but 'amer', yet 'il/ele aime'. Many more verbs that are now perfectly regular, used to have two different stems. These irregularities were due to the regular sound changes that turned Latin into Old French. In Latin, word stress was different in the infinitive than in the third person, as indicated with an underline in the video. This stress difference had consequences for how the vowels developed: 'a-MA-re' became 'a-MER' 'A-mat' became 'AI-me' On my Patreon (tier 1), I tell all about this phenomenon: how it affected vowels in a predictable way, the patterns that emerged (with a discussion of all of the forms in the video), and how the alternations were eventually eliminated. 1500 words, link in bio.