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Similarly, the participle agrees with the subject when it is used with ser to form the "true" passive voice (e.g. La carta fue escrita ayer 'The letter was written [got written] yesterday.'), and also when it is used with estar to form a "passive of result", or stative passive (as in La carta ya está escrita 'The letter is already written.').
In English, the sentence "The boy is boring" uses a different adjective than "The boy is bored". In Spanish, the difference is made by the choice of ser or estar. El chico es aburrido uses ser to express a permanent trait ("The boy is boring"). El chico está aburrido uses estar to express a temporary state of mind ("The boy is bored").
The more common is the periphrastic preterite (pretèrit perfet perifràstic), a compound tense formed with conjugations of a special present indicative of anar ("go", used exclusively in the formation of this tense) followed by the infinitive of the conjugated verb (vaig parlar, "I spoke"; vas parlar or vares parlar, "you [singular informal ...
the rest of the endings are the usual for -er/-ir verbs, even for the -ar verbs estar and andar. in the verbs with -je preterite ( decir , traer , and most verbs ending in -ducir ) unstressed i is dropped between the j and a vowel: ellos trajeron , yo trajera ...
The present progressive is formed by first conjugating the verb estar or seguir, depending on context, to agree with the subject, and then attaching a gerund of the verb that follows. The past (imperfect) progressive simply requires the estar or seguir to be conjugated, depending on context, in imperfect, with respect to the subject.
The following table presents a comparison of the conjugation of the regular verb cantare "to sing" in Classical Latin, and Vulgar Latin (reconstructed as Proto-Italo-Western Romance, with stress marked), and nine modern Romance languages. The conjugations below were given from their respective Wiktionary pages.
The Portuguese copulas are ser and estar. As in Spanish, estar derived from Latin sto / stare: stare → *estare → estar. The copula ser developed both from svm and sedeo. Thus its inflectional paradigm is a combination of these two Latin verbs: most tenses derive from svm and a few from sedeo. E.g. derivation from sedeo: [1] sedere → seer ...
Models for the Conjugation of Auxiliary Catalan Verbs Models per a la Conjugació dels Verbs Auxiliars en Català: SIMPLE TENSES - TEMPS SIMPLES INFINITIVE- INFINITIU PRONOUNS/PRONOMS (4) (ÉS)SER ESTAR HAVER ANAR TENIR GERUND - GERUNDI sent estant havent anant tenint PARTICIPLE - PARTICIPI estat estat hagut anat tingut INDICATIVE - INDICATIU