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Indo-European copula

A feature common to all Indo-European languages is the presence of a verb corresponding to the English verb to be.

General features edit

This verb has two basic meanings:

  • In a less marked context it is a simple copula (I’m tired; That’s a shame!), a function which in non-Indo-European languages can be expressed quite differently.
  • In a more heavily marked context it expresses existence (I think therefore I am); the dividing line between these is not always easy to draw.

Some languages have shared these functions between several verbs: Irish, Spanish and Persian all have multiple equivalents of to be, making a variety of distinctions.

Many Indo-European languages also use the verb "to be" as an auxiliary for the formation of compound (periphrastic) tenses (I’m working; I was bitten). Other functions vary from language to language. For example, although in its basic meanings, to be is a stative verb, English puts it to work as a dynamic verb in fixed collocations (You are being very annoying).

The copula is the most irregular verb in many Indo-European languages. This is partly because it is more frequently used than any other, and partly because Proto-Indo-European offered more than one verb suitable for use in these functions, with the result that the daughter languages, in different ways, have tended to form suppletive verb paradigms.

This article describes the way in which the irregular forms have developed from a series of roots.

The Proto-Indo-European [PIE] roots edit

*h1es- edit

The root *h1es- was certainly already a copula in Proto-Indo-European.

The e-grade *h1es- (see Indo-European ablaut) is found in such forms as English is, Irish is, German ist, Latin est, Sanskrit asti, Persian ast, Old Church Slavonic jestĭ .

The zero grade *h1s- produces forms beginning with /s/, like German sind, Latin sumus, Vedic Sanskrit smas, etc.

In PIE, *h1es- was an athematic verb in -mi; that is, the first person singular was *h1esmi; this inflection survives in English am, Pashto yem, Persian am, Sanskrit asmi, Bengali first-person verb ending -ām, Old Church Slavonic esmĭ, etc.

This verb is generally reconstructed for Proto-Indo-European thus:[1]

Person Present
indicative
Imperfect
indicative
Subjunctive Optative Imperative
1st singular *h1és-mi *h1és-m̥ *h1és-oh2 *h1s-iéh1-m
2nd singular *h1és-i *h1és *h1és-esi *h1s-iéh1-s *h1és, *h1s-dʰí
3rd singular *h1és-ti *h1és-t *h1és-eti *h1s-iéh1-t *h1és-tu
1st dual *h1s-uós *h1s-ué *h1és-owos *h1s-ih1-wé
2nd dual *h1s-tés *h1s-tóm *h1és-etes *h1s-ih1-tóm *h1s-tóm
3rd dual *h1s-tés *h1s-tā́m *h1és-etes *h1s-ih1-tā́m *h1s-tā́m
1st plural *h1s-m̥ós *h1s-m̥é *h1és-omos *h1s-ih1-mé
2nd plural *h1s-té *h1s-té *h1és-ete *h1s-ih1-té *h1s-té
3rd plural *h1s-énti *h1s-énd *h1és-onti *h1s-ih1-énd *h1s-éntu

*bʰuH- edit

The root *bʰuH- or *bʰuh₂- (which did not have ablaut variations in the protolanguage[2]) probably meant 'to grow', but also 'to become'.

This is the source of the English infinitive be and participle been. Also, for example, the Scottish Gaelic "future" tense bithidh; the Irish imperative , past bhí and future beidh; the Welsh bod (along with the other b- initial forms); Persian imperative bov, past bud and future bâš; and the Slavic infinitive and past, etc. for example Russian быть (byt’), был (byl).

PIE *bʰ became Latin /f/, hence the Latin future participle futūrus and perfect fuī; Latin fīō 'I become' is also from this root, as is the Greek verb φύω (phúō), from which physics and physical are derived.

*bʰuH- was a preterito-present verb, i.e. Imperfect endings for Present, and can be reconstructed as follows:[1]

Person Indicative Subjunctive Optative Imperative
1st singular *bʰúH-m *bʰúH-oh2 *bʰuH-yéh1-m
2nd singular *bʰúH-s *bʰúH-esi *bʰuH-yéh1-s *bʰúH, *bʰuH-dʰí
3rd singular *bʰúH-t *bʰúH-eti *bʰuH-yéh1-t *bʰúH-tu
1st dual *bʰuH-wé *bʰúH-owos *bʰuH-ih1-wé
2nd dual *bʰuH-tóm *bʰúH-etes *bʰuH-ih1-tóm *bʰuH-tóm
3rd dual *bʰuH-tā́m *bʰúH-etes *bʰuH-ih1-tā́m *bʰuH-tā́m
1st plural *bʰuH-mé *bʰúH-omos *bʰuH-ih1-mé
2nd plural *bʰuH-té *bʰúH-ete *bʰuH-ih1-té *bʰuH-té
3rd plural *bʰuH-énd *bʰúH-onti *bʰuH-ih1-énd *bʰuH-éntu

*h2wes- edit

The root *h2wes- may originally have meant "to live",[1] and has been productive in all Germanic languages. The e-grade is present in the German participle gewesen, the o-grade (*wos-) survives in English and Old High German was, while the lengthened e-grade (*wēs-) gives us English were. (The Germanic forms with /r/ instead of /s/ result from grammatischer Wechsel.) See Germanic strong verb: Class 5.

*h1er- edit

This has been claimed as the origin of the Old Norse and later Scandinavian languages' present stem: Old Norse em, ert, er, erum, eruð, eru; the second person forms of which were borrowed into English as art and are.[3][page needed] It has also been seen as the origin of the Latin imperfect (eram, eras, erat) and future tenses (ero, eris, erit).

However, other authorities link these forms with *h1es- and assume grammatischer Wechsel (/s/→/r/), although this is not normally found in the present stem. Donald Ringe argues that the copula was sometimes unaccented in Pre-Proto-Germanic, which would have then triggered the voicing under Verner's law.[1][page needed] He explains the Germanic first person singular form *immi as such, deriving it from earlier *ezmi, since -zm-, but not -sm-, was assimilated to -mm- in Germanic (for which other evidence exists as well). Furthermore, the third person plural form *sindi (from PIE *h₁sénti) shows that this word, too, was unaccented. If the accent had been preserved, it would have become *sinþi, but that form is not found in any Germanic language. In this view, it is likely that stressed and unstressed varieties of the copula (with corresponding voiceless and voiced fricatives) existed side by side in Germanic, and the involvement of a separate root *h₁er- is unnecessary.

The Latin forms could be explained by rhotacism.

*steh2- edit

The root *(s)teh2- meant "to stand". From this root comes the present stem of the so-called "substantive verb" in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, and tha respectively, as well as taw in Welsh. On the absence of the initial s- in Celtic, see Indo-European s-mobile.

In Latin, stō, stare retained the meaning "to stand", until local forms of Vulgar Latin began to use it as a copula in certain circumstances. Today, this survives in that several Romance languages (Galician-Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan) use it as one of their two copulae, and there is also a Romance tendency for a past participle derived from *steh2- to replace the original one of the copula (this occurs in French, Italian and the main dialects of Catalan). See also Romance copula.

Although in Dutch this verb retains its primary meaning of "stand", it is used in an auxiliary-like function that only has a secondary meaning of "standing", for example: ik sta te koken ("I am cooking", literally "I stand to cook"). While it is not a full copula (it can normally only be used as an auxiliary with another verb), it does have shades of meaning that resemble that of the Italian sto cucinando ("I am cooking"). The intransitive verbs zitten ("to sit"), liggen ("to lie") and lopen ("to walk/run") are used in similar ways.

In Swedish, which usually lacks gerund forms, the corresponding stå is often used similarly, along with sitta ("to sit"), ligga ("to lie") and ("to walk").

In Hindustani the past tense of the copula honā "to be" which are «tʰā», «tʰe», «tʰī» and «tʰī̃» are derived from Sanskrit «stʰā». Gujarati has a cognate verb «tʰavũ» "to happen"; cf. Bengali aorist «tʰā-» (to stay) as well.

The resulting paradigms edit

Indo-Iranian languages edit

Indic languages edit

Sanskrit edit

The Vedic Sanskrit root as (to be) is derived from the Indo-European root *h1es-.

Mood/Tense Indicative Optative Imperative
Present Perfect Imperfect Periphrasatic

Future

Voice Active Passive
singular 1st asmi he āsa āsam asitāsmi syām asāni
2nd asi se āsitha āsīḥ asitāsi syāḥ edhi
3rd asti ste āsa āsīt asitā syāt astu
dual 1st svaḥ svahe āsiva āsva asitāsvaḥ syāva asāva
2nd sthaḥ sāthe āsathuḥ āstam asitāsthaḥ syātam stam
3rd staḥ sāte āsatuḥ āstām asitārau syātām stām
plural 1st smaḥ smahe āsima āsma asitāsmaḥ syāma asāma
2nd stha dhve āsa āsta asitāstha syāta sta
3rd santi sate āsuḥ āsan asitāraḥ syuḥ santu

bhū (to be) is derived from Indo-European *bʰuH-.

Mood/Tense Indicative Conditional Optative Aorist Injunctive Benedictive Imperative
Present Perfect Imperfect Future Periphrasatic

Future

Voice Active Passive Active Passive Active Passive Active Passive Active Passive Active Passive
singular 1st bhavāmi bhūye babhūva abhavam abhūye bhaviṣyāmi bhavitāsmi abhaviṣyam bhaveyam bhūyeya abhūvam bhūvam bhūyāsam bhavāni bhūyai
2nd bhavasi bhūyase babhūvitha abhavaḥ abhūyathāḥ bhaviṣyasi bhavitāsi abhaviṣyaḥ bhaveḥ bhūyethāḥ abhūḥ bhūḥ bhūyāḥ bhava bhūyasva
3rd bhavati bhūyate babhūva abhavat abhūyata bhaviṣyati bhavitā abhaviṣyat bhavet bhūyeta abhūt abhāvi bhūt bhāvi bhūyāt bhavatu bhūyatām
dual 1st bhavāvaḥ bhūyāvahe babhūviva abhavāva abhūyāvahi bhaviṣyāvaḥ bhavitāsvaḥ abhaviṣyāva bhaveva bhūyevahi abhūva bhūva bhūyāsva bhavāva bhūyāvahai
2nd bhavathaḥ bhūyethe babhūvathuḥ abhavatam abhūyethām bhaviṣyathaḥ bhavitāsthaḥ abhaviṣyatam bhavetam bhūyeyāthām abhūtam bhūtam bhūyāstam bhavatam bhūyethām
3rd bhavataḥ bhūyete babhūvatuḥ abhavatām abhūyetām bhaviṣyataḥ bhavitārau abhaviṣyatām bhavetām bhūyeyātām abhūtām bhūtām bhūyāstām bhavatām bhūyetām
plural 1st bhavāmaḥ bhūyāmahe babhūvima abhavāma abhūyāmahi bhaviṣyāmaḥ bhavitāsmaḥ abhaviṣyāma bhavema bhūyemahi abhūma bhūma bhūyāsma bhavāma bhūyāmahai
2nd bhavatha bhūyadhve babhūva abhavata abhūyadhvam bhaviṣyatha bhavitāstha abhaviṣyata bhaveta bhūyedhvam abhūta bhūta bhūyāsta bhavata bhūyadhvam
3rd bhavanti bhūyante babhūvuḥ abhavan abhūyanta bhaviṣyanti bhavitāraḥ abhaviṣyan bhaveyuḥ bhūyeran abhūvan bhūvan bhūyāsuḥ bhavantu bhūyantām
Hindi-Urdu edit

In modern Hindi-Urdu (Hindustani), the Sanskrit verb अस् (as) (to be) which is derived from the Indo-European root *h1es- has developed into the present indicative forms of the verb होना ہونا (honā) (to be).[4] The infinitive होना ہونا (honā) itself is derived from the Sanskrit verb root भू (bʱū) which is derived from Indo-European root *bhuH-. The indicative imperfect forms of होना ہونا (honā) comes from Sanskrit स्थित (stʰita) "standing, situated" which are derived from the PIE root *steh₂- (“to stand”).[5] होना ہونا (honā) is the only verb in Hindi-Urdu to have the present indicative, imperfect indicative, presumptive mood and the present subjunctive conjugations, and all the other verbs in Hindi-Urdu lack them.[6]

The verb होना / ہونا (honā) can be translated as "to be", "to exist", "to happen" or "to have" depending on the context, and when used in the third person it could also be translated as "there is/are". Many verbs conjugations in Hindi-Urdu are derived from participles and hence are gendered and numbered, and they agree with either the object or the subject of the sentence depending on the grammatical case of the subject of the sentence. When the subject is in the ergative or the dative case (seeː dative construction & quirky subject) the verb agrees in gender and number with the object of the sentence and with the subject when the subject is in the nominative case.

PERSONAL FORMS of "honā (to be)"
mood tense first person second person
singular familiar1,2 intimate formal1,2,3
indicative present hū̃ ho hai ha͠i
perfect huā huī hue huī huā huī hue huī̃
imperfect thā thī the thī thā thī the thī̃
future hoū̃gā hoū̃gī hooge hoogī hoegā hoegī hoẽge hoẽgī
presumptive all hū̃gā hū̃gī hoge hogī hogā hogī hõge hõgī
subjunctive present hū̃ ho ho
future hoū̃ hoo hoe hoẽ
future5 huā huī hue huī huā huī hue huī̃
contrafactual past hotā hotī hote hotī hotā hotī hote hotī̃
imperative present hoo ho hoiye
future honā hoiyo hoiyegā
IMPERSONAL FORMS of "honā (to be)"
Stem ho
Infinitive honā
Oblique Infinitive hone
Conjunctive hokar, hoke
Progressive hote-hote
PARTICIPLES
singular plural singular plural
Infinitive honā hone honī honī̃
Prospective honevālā honevāle honevālī honevālī̃
Agentive
Habitual Aspect hotā hote hotī hotī̃
Perfective Aspect huā hue huī huī̃
Perfective Adjectival4 huā-huā hue-hue huī-huī huī-huī̃
Imperfective Adjectival4 hotā-huā hote-hue hotī-huī hotī-huī̃
1 the second person familiar and formal conjugations are grammatically plural and can be used in both singular and plural sense, akin to the English pronoun you.
2 the third person singular and plural conjugations are respectively the same as the second person intimate and formal conjugations.
3 the first person plural pronoun conjugations are the same as the second person formal conjugations.
4 the second (adjoined) part of the adjectival participles -huā, -hue, -huī & -huī̃ are respectively shortened to -, -we, - & -wī̃ in speech.
5 the future perfective subjunctive has the same form as the indicative perfect. It is only used with if-clauses and relative clauses.[7][8]
Bengali edit

Bengali is considered a zero copula language, however there are notable exceptions. In the simple present tense there is no verb connecting the subject to the predicative (the "zero verb" copula) but when the predicate expresses ideas of existence, location, or possession, for such cases the verb আছ- (ach) can be roughly translated as "to exist" or "to be present".

  • In the past tense, the incomplete verb আছ- (ach) is always used as the copula, regardless of the nature of the predicative.
  • For the future tense and non-finite structures, the copula is supplied by the verb হওয়া (howa), with the exceptions being the possessive and locative predicatives for which the verb থাকা (thaka, "to remain") is utilized.
  • Bengali does not have a verb for possession (i.e. "to have", "to own"). Instead, possession in Bengali is expressed by the verb আছ- (āch) (for present and past tenses) and the verb থাকা (thaka) (for future tense) inflected with the possessed object and a genitive case for the possessor.

Bengali verbs are highly inflected and are regular with only few exceptions. They consist of a stem and an ending; they are traditionally listed in Bengali dictionaries in their "verbal noun" form, which is usually formed by adding -a to the stem: for instance, করা (kôra, to do) is formed from the stem কর (kôr). The stem can end in either a vowel or a consonant.

Nepali edit

The copula verb of Nepali has two sets of conjugations. The हो (ho) set is used in sentences that equate two things, like त्यो किताब हो (tyo kitāb ho, “That is a book.”) The छ (cha) set is used in sentences that describe something, or locate where something is, like त्यो ठूलो छ (tyo ṭhūlo cha, “That is big.”). Singular present tense forms of the copulas in Nepali are shown in the table below:

Pronoun हो (ho, “define/identify”) छ (cha, “describe/qualify”)
Positive Negative Positive Negative
1st म (ma) हुँ (hũ) होइन (hoina) छुँ (chũ) छैन (chaina)
2nd Familiar तिमी (timī) हौ (hau) होइनौ (hoinau) छौ (chau) छैनौ (chainau)
Formal तपाईं (tapāīṃ) हुनुहुन्छ (hunuhuncha) हुनुहुन्न (hunuhunna) हुनुहुन्छ (hunuhuncha) हुनुहुन्न (hunuhunna)
3rd Familiar यो (yo) / त्यो (tyo) हो (ho) होइन (hoina) छ (cha) छैन (chaina)
Formal वहाँ (vahā̃) हुनुहुन्छ (hunuhuncha) हुनुहुन्न (hunuhunna) हुनुहुन्छ (hunuhuncha) हुनुहुन्न (hunuhunna)

Iranic languages edit

Persian edit

With regard to the function of the verb ‘to be’ as a copula, the most conspicuous feature of Modern Persian language is the evolution of an existential be, hast (exists), out of ast (is). In fact, when studying the forms and functions of ‘to be’, one might find certain characteristics specific to Persian that are worth pondering upon[9]— i.e. even without considering the diachronic evolution of Modern Persian language and its relation to Ancient Iranian languages (such as Old Persian and Avestan) whose usage of the verb ‘to be’ seems more close to Sanskrit. Paradoxically, despite the fact that Persian is apparently the only Indo-European language that has created an existential be out of the copula, it has simultaneously made an extreme use of the latter to produce a general paradigm for conjugating all Persian verbs.

Historically speaking, like most of Indo-European languages that make use of suppletive roots to denote ‘to be’, Persian integrates Proto-Indo-European (PIE) verbs *h1es- (to be) and *bhuH (to grow> to become> to be). Hence, while Persian infinitive būdan (to be) < PIE *bhuH forms the past stem of the verb (e.g. Persian būd- ‘was’) or acts as an auxiliary verb in formation of pluperfect of other verbs, its present tense is solely based on the derivatives of PIE *h1es-. It is, in fact, from the declension of PIE *h1es- (to be) that six present stems have been created and assigned to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person singular and plural to act as the present-tense conjugation of Persian būdan (to be), as shown in the following table.

Persian English Persian English
1st Person -am (I) am -īm (we) are
2nd Person (thou) art -īd (you) are
3rd Person ast (a) (he/she/it) is -and (they) are

As an example, in the following sentences, the present forms of the verb 'to be' are used as copulas or predicates:

Persian English
man doxtar-e to am. I am thy daughter.
īn barādar-e man ast (a or e). This is my brother.
to pedar-e man ī. Thou art my father.

Furthermore, as endings added to the stem of the verbs, these declensional forms have been grammaticalized to shape a general paradigm for the grammatical conjugation of all other verbs; these endings were once auxiliary verbs which evolved into an enclitic. This generalized conjugational paradigm is also applied to the past tense of the verb būdan (shown in the table below). However, what is linguistically notable, is the emergence of an existential be out of the copula, viz hast (exists) out of ast (is). The evolution of this exceptional form, might go back to ancient Iranian languages, where ast could have two variants (cf. Avestan which has both as- and has- <PIE *h1es- ‘be’). In the next phase, what we may call a pseudo-verb appeared, vis. the verb hastan (to exist) has been analogically evolved from hast (exists) and has been conjugated like any other Persian verb (e.g. hast-am = literally: *‘(I) am existence’→ ‘I exist’).

The simple past conjugation of the verb būdan (to be) is in fact formed by a double-copula, in the sense that both the stem and the ending are copulas: the past stem of the verb būd- is derived from PIE *bhuH-, while the endings are from the suppletive form of PIE *h1es- (to be) with the exception of 3rd person singular which has zero ending for the all Persian verbs in the past tense.

Singular English Enclitic copula Plural English Enclitic copula
būdam I was ام -am būdīm we were ايم -īm
būdī thou wast اى -ī būdīd you were اید -īd
būd (būda) he/she/it was Ø (a) būdand they were اند -and

The present perfect conjugation of the verb būdan (to be) is a double copula paradigm as it is produced by addition of all enclitic copulas to the past participle of the verb: būde (been).

Singular English Enclitic copula Plural English Enclitic copula
būdeam I have been -am būdeīm we have been -īm
būdeī thou hast been būdeīd you have been -īd
būde ast (būde a) he/she/it has been ast (a) būdeand they have been -and

The pseudo-verb hastan (to exist) has only simple present tense; in addition, it is truly and purely existencial only in the case of third person singular (hast). The fact is that the verb has been the product of this very case, as an "existential is", hast (he/she/it exists). For other persons the conjugation has to use enclitic copulas. These copulas are, in turn, derived from the declension of PIE *h1es- (to be); as if the predicative "to be" has been an auxiliary verb turned into enclitic, to provide six endings for 1st/2nd/3rd person (singular & plural). However, as it is said, the 3rd person singular has no ending in the case of hastan. That is to say that the existential hast (exists), which is like the alter-ego of the copula ast (is), takes no ending, while the present stem of all other verbs take an archaic ending -ad in their 3rd person singular.

Singular English Enclitic copula Plural English Enclitic copula
hastam I exist -am hastīm we exist -īm
hastī thou existest hastīd you exist -īd
hast he/she/it exists {ad} > Ø (a) hastand they exist -and

Hellenic languages edit

Greek edit

The Ancient Greek verb eimi (I am) is derived from the Indo-European root *h1es-.

  Homeric Greek Classical Attic Modern Greek
Present indicative 1st sg.
2nd sg.
3rd sg.
1st pl.
2nd pl.
3rd pl.
εἰμί (eimi)
εἶς, ἐσσί (eis, essi)
ἐστί(ν) (esti(n))
εἰμέν (eimen)
ἐστέ (este)
εἰσί(ν), ἔασι (eisi(n), easi)
εἰμί (eimi)
εἶ (ei)
ἐστί(ν) (esti(n))
ἐσμέν (esmen)
ἐστέ (este)
εἰσί(ν) (eisi(n))
είμαι (ime)
είσαι (ise)
είναι (ine)
είμαστε (imaste)
είσαστε, είστε (isaste, iste)
είναι (ine)
Preterite indicative 1st sg.
2nd sg.
3rd sg.
1st pl.
2nd pl.
3rd pl.
ἦα, ἔον (ēa, eon)
ἦσθα, ἔησθα (ēstha, eēstha)
ἦ(ε)ν, ἔην (ē(e)n, eēn)
ἦμεν (ēmen)
ἦτε (ēte)
ἦσαν (ēsan)
ἦ(ν) (ē(n))
ἦς, ἦσθα (ēs, ēstha)
ἦν (ēn)
ἦμεν (ēmen)
ἦστε, ἔατε (ēste, eate)
ἦσαν ἔσαν (ēsan, esan)
ήμουν (imun)
ήσουν (isun)
ήταν (itan)
ήμασταν (imaste, imastan)
ήσασταν (isaste, isastan)
ήταν, (ήσαν) (itan, (isan))
Subjunctive 1st sg.
2nd sg.
3rd sg.
1st pl.
2nd pl.
3rd pl.
ἔω ()
ἔῃς, ἔοις (eēis, eois)
ἔῃ(σι), ᾖσι(ν), ἔοι (eēi(si), ēisi(n), eoi)
 
 
ἔωσι(ν) (eōsi(n))
(ō)
ᾖς (ēis)
(ēi)
ὦμεν (ōmen)
ἦτε (ēte)
ὦσι(ν) (ōsi(n))
Optative 1st sg.
2nd sg.
3rd sg.
1st pl.
2nd pl.
3rd pl.
εἴην (eiēn)
εἴης (eiēs)
εἴη (eiē)
 
εἶτε (eite)
εἶεν (eien)
εἴην (eiēn)
εἴης (eiēs)
εἴη (eiē)
εἴημεν, εἶμεν (ei(ē)men)
εἴητε, εἶτε (ei(ē)te)
εἴησαν, εἶεν (eiēsan, eien)
Imperative 2nd sg.
3rd sg.
2nd pl.
3rd pl.
ἔσσο, ἴσθι (esso, isthi)
 
ἔστε (este
ἴσθι (isthi)
ἔστω (estō)
ἔστε (este)
ἔστων, ὄντων (estōn, ontōn)
να είσαι (na ise)


να είστε (na iste) 
 

Infinitive εἶναι, ἔμ(μ)εν(αι) (einai, em(m)en(ai)) εἶναι (einai)
Participle ἐών, ἐόντ- (eōn, eont-)
fem. ἐοῦσα (eousa)
ὦν, ὄντ- (ōn, ont-)
fem. οὖσα (ousa)
όντας (ontas)

Dual is not shown in the table.

The participles are based on the full-grade stem ἐσ- in Homeric, according to Smyth.

Italic languages edit

Except for Latin, the older Italic languages are very scarcely attested, but we have in Oscan set (they are), fiiet (they become), fufans (they have been) and fust (he will be), and in Umbrian sent (they are). This section will explain Latin, and the Romance languages that have evolved from it.

Esse and the forms beginning with (e)s- are from the root *h1es-, while the forms beginning with f- are from the root *bʰuH-. For the forms beginning with er-, see *h₁er-. Stāre is derived from the root *steh2-.

In Spanish, Catalan, Galician-Portuguese and to a lesser extent, Italian there are two parallel paradigms, ser/èsser/essere from Latin esse "to be" on the one hand, and estar/stare from Latin stare, "to stand" on the other.

In several modern Romance languages, the perfect is a compound tense formed with the past participle as in English, but the old Latin perfect survives as a commonly used preterite in Spanish and Portuguese, and as a literary "past historic" in French, Italian and Catalan.

There is a tendency for a past participle derived from stare (or more specifically its supine, statum) to replace that of the main copula derived from esse. For example, the French participle été comes from statum.

  Latin Old French French Spanish Italian Portuguese Catalan Romanian Sicilian Occitan
Infinitive esse stāre estre ester être ser estar essere stare ser estar ser, ésser estar a fi, fire siri stari estre,èsser
Indicative Present sum

es

est

sumus

estis

sunt

stō

stās

stat

stāmus

stātis

stant

suis

es

est

sommes

estes

sont

este

estes

este

estons

estez

estent

suis

es

est

sommes

êtes

sont

soy

eres/sos

es

somos

sois

son

estoy

estás

está

estamos

estáis

están

sono

sei

è

siamo

siete

sono

sto

stai

sta

stiamo

state

stanno

sou

és

é

somos

sois

são

estou

estás

está

estamos

estais

estão

sóc

ets

és

som

sou

són

estic

estàs

està

estem

esteu

estan

sunt
eşti
este
suntem

sunteţi

sunt

sugnu

esti

simu

siti

staiu

stai

sta

stamu

stati

stannu

soi

sès

es

sèm

sètz

son

Preterite fuī

fuistī

fuit

fuimus

fuistis

fuērunt/fuēre

stetī

stetistī

stetit

stetimus

stetistis

stetērunt/stetēre

fui

fus

fu

fumes

fustes

furent

estai

estas

esta

estames

estastes

esterent

fus

fus

fut

fûmes

fûtes

furent

fui

fuiste

fue

fuimos

fuisteis

fueron

estuve

estuviste

estuvo

estuvimos

estuvisteis

estuvieron

fui

fosti

fu

fummo

foste

furono

stetti

stesti

stette

stemmo

steste

stettero

fui

foste

foi

fomos

fostes

foram

estive

estiveste

esteve

estivemos

estivestes

estiveram

fui

fores

fou

fórem

fóreu

foren

estiguí

estugueres

estigué

estiguérem

estiguéreu

estigueren

fusei/fui

fuseși/fuși

fuse/fu

fuserăm/furăm

fuserăți/furăți

fuseră/fură

fui

fusti

fu

fumu

fùstivu

furu

stesi

stasti

stesi

stèsimu

stàsivu

stèsiru

foguèri

foguères

foguèt

foguèrem

foguèretz

foguèron

Imperfect eram

erās

erat

erāmus

erātis

erant

stābam

stābās

stābat

stābāmus

stābātis

stābant

ier

iers

iert

iermes

seroiz

ierent

estoie

estoies

estoit

estiens

estiez

estoient

étais

étais

était

étions

étiez

étaient

era

eras

era

éramos

erais

eran

estaba

estabas

estaba

estábamos

estabais

estaban

ero

eri

era

eravamo

eravate

erano

stavo

stavi

stava

stavamo

stavate

stavano

era

eras

era

éramos

éreis

eram

estava

estavas

estava

estávamos

estaveis

estavam

era

eres

era

érem

éreu

eren

estava

estaves

estava

estàvem

estàveu

estaven

eram

erai

era

eram

erați

erau

era

eri

era

èramu

èravu

èranu

stava

stavi

stava

stàvamu

stàstivu

stàvanu

èri

èras

èra

èram

èratz

èran

Pluperfect fueram

fuerās

fuerat

fuerāmus

fuerātis

fuerant

steteram

steterās

steterāt

steterāmus

steterātis

steterant

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

fora

foras

fora

fôramos

fôreis

foram

estivera

estiveras

estivera

estivéramos

estivéreis

estiveram

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

fusesem

fuseseși

fusese

fuseserăm

fuseserăți

fuseseră

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Future erō

eris/ere

erit

erimus

eritis

erunt

stābō

stābis

stābit

stābimus

stābitis

stabunt

serai

seras

sera

serons

serez

seront

esterai serai

seras

sera

serons

serez

seront

seré

serás

será

seremos

seréis

serán

estaré

estarás

estará

estaremos

estaréis

estarán

sarò

sarai

sarà

saremo

sarete

saranno

starò

starai

starà

staremo

starete

staranno

serei

serás

será

seremos

sereis

serão

estarei

estarás

estará

estaremos

estareis

estarão

seré

seràs

serà

serem

sereu

seram

estaré

estaràs

estarà

estarem

estareu

estaran

voi fi

vei fi

va fi

vom fi

veți fi

vor fi

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

serai

seràs

serà

serem

seretz

seràn

Future Perfect fuerō

fueris

fuerit

fuerimus

fueritis

fuerint

steterō

steteris

steterit

steterimus

steteritis

steterint

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Subjunctive Present sim

sīs

sit

sīmus

sītis

sint

stem

stēs

stet

stēmus

stētis

stent

soie

soies

soit

soions

soiiez

soient

estoise

estoises

estoise

estons

estez

estoisent

sois

sois

soit

soyons

soyez

soient

sea

seas

sea

seamos

seáis

sean

esté

estés

esté

estemos

estéis

estén

sia

sia

sia

siamo

siate

siano

stia

stia

stia

stiamo

stiate

stiano

seja

sejas

seja

sejamos

sejais

sejam

esteja

estejas

esteja

estejamos

estejais

estejam

sigui/siga

siguis/sigues

sigui/siga

siguem

sigueu

siguin/siguen

estigui/estiga

estiguis/estugues

estugui/estiga

estiguem

estigueu

estiguin/estiguen

să fiu

să fii

să fie

să fim

să fiți

să fie

fussi

fussi

fussi

fùssimu

fùssivu

fùssiru

stassi

stassi

stassi

stàssimu

stàssivu

stàssiru

siá

siás

siá

siam

siatz

sián

Imperfect essem/forem

essēs/forēs

esset/foret

essēmus/forēmus

essetis/forētis

essent/forent

stārem

stārēs

stāret

stārēmus

stārētis

stārent

fusse

fusses

fust

fussons

fussiez

fussent

esteüsse

esteüsses

esteüst

esteüssons

esteüssoiz

esteüssent

fusse

fusses

fût

fussions

fussiez

fussent

fuera/fuese

fueras/fueses

fuera/fuese

fuéramos/fuésemos

fuerais/fueseis

fueran/fuesen

estuviera/estuviese

estuvieras/estuvieses

estuviera/estuviese

estuviéramos/estuviésemos

estuvierais/estuvieseis

estuvieran/estuviesen

fossi

fossi

fosse

fossimo

foste

fossero

stessi

stessi

stesse

stessimo

steste

stessero

fosse

fosses

fosse

fôssemos

fôsseis

fossem

estivesse

estivesses

estivesse

estivéssemos

estivésseis

estivessem

fos

fossis

fos

fóssim/fóssem

fóssiu/fósseu

fossin/fossen

estigués

estiguessis

estigués

estiguéssim/estiguéssem

estiguéssiu/estiguésseu

estiguessin/estiguessen

să fi fost

să fi fost

să fi fost

să fi fost

să fi fost

să fi fost

fussi

fussi

fussi

fùssimu

fùssivu

fùssiru

stassi

stassi

stassi

stàssimu

stàssivu

stàssiru

foguèsse

foguèsses

foguèsse

foguèssem

foguèssetz

foguèsson

Future -

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

fuere

fueres

fuere

fuéremos

fuereis

fueren

estuviere

estuvieres

estuviere

estuviéremos

estuviereis

estuvieren

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

for

fores

for

formos

fordes

forem

estiver

estiveres

estiver

estivermos

estiverdes

estiverem

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Conditional -

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

seroie

seroies

seroit

seriens

seriez

seroient

esteroie

esteroies

esteroit

esteriiens

esteriiez

esteroient

serais

serais

serait

serions

seriez

seraient

sería

serías

sería

seríamos

seríais

serían

estaría

estarías

estaría

estaríamos

estaríais

estarían

sarei

saresti

sarebbe

saremmo

sareste

sarebbero

starei

staresti

starebbe

staremmo

stareste

starebbero

seria

serias

seria

seríamos

seríeis

seriam

estaria

estarias

estaria

estaríamos

estaríeis

estariam

seria/fóra

series/fores

seria/fóra

seríem/fórem

seríeu/fóreu

serien/foren

estaria

estaries

estaria

estaríem

estaríeu

estarien

aș fi

ai fi

ar fi

am fi

ați fi

ar fi

fora

fori

fora

fòramu

fòravu

fòranu

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Imperative Present -

es

-

-

este

-

-

stā

-

-

stāte

-

-

soies

-

soiiens

soiiez

-

-

esta

-

estons

estez

-

-

sois

-

soyons

soyez

-

-

-

seamos

sed/sean

-

-

está

-

estemos

estad/estén

-

-

sii

-

-

siate

-

-

sta

-

-

state

-

-

-

-

sede

-

-

está

-

-

estai

-

-

sigues

-

-

sigueu/sigau

-

-

estigues

-

-

estigueu/estigau

-

-

fii

-

-

fiți

-

-

-

-

siti

-

-

stai

-

-

stati

-

-

siá

-

siam

siatz

-

Future -

estō

estō

-

estōte

suntō

-

stātō

stātō

-

stātōte

stantō

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Past participle fuisse statum esté esté été sido estado stato/essuto stato sido estado estat/sigut/sét estat fost statu statu estat, estada
Present Participle esse stāns estant estant étant siendo estando essendo stando sendo estando sent/essent estant fiind sennu sannu essent
  Latin Old French French Spanish Italian Portuguese Catalan Romanian Sicilian Occitan

Germanic languages edit

The proto-Germanic verb for 'to be', *wesaną, and its conjugations are derived from the Proto-Indo-European verbs *h2wes (‘stay overnight, camp’) and the optative of *h1es-.[10] Proto-Germanic retained the dual, but only in the first and second person.

  Proto-Germanic
(reconstructed)
Gothic Old Norse Icelandic Faroese Norwegian
Nynorsk
Norwegian
Bokmål
+
Danish
Old Swedish Swedish Old English English Old High
German
German Luxem-
burgish
Old Saxon Dutch
Infinitive *wesaną *beuną? wisan vera vera vera vera/vere være vara vara wesan bēon be wesan sein sinn wesan zijn / wezen
Present
indicative
*immi
*izi
*isti
*izū
*izudiz
*izum
*izud
*sindi
*biumi
*biusi
*biuþi
*beū?
*biuþiz
*beum
*beuþ
*biunþi
im
is
ist
siju
sijuts
sijum
sijuþ
sind
em
ert (est)
er (es)


erum
eruð
eru
er
ert
er


erum
eruð
eru
eri
ert
er


eru
eru
eru
er
er
er


er
er
er
er
er
er


er
er
er
æm/ær
æst
ær


ærum
ærin
æru
är
är
är


är (äro)
är (ären)
är (äro)
eom
eart
is


sint
sint
sint
bēo
bist
biþ


bēoþ
bēoþ
bēoþ
am
art
is


are
are
are
bim, bin
bist
ist


birum, bir(e)n
birut, bir(e)t
sint
bin
bist
ist


sind
seid
sind
si(nn)
bass
ass


si(nn)
sidd
si(nn)
bium
bist
is


sind
sind
sind
ben

is


zijn
bent/zijt*
zijn
Present
subjunctive
*sijǭ
*sijēs
*sijē
*sīw
*sīþiz
*sīm
*sīþ
*sīn
*biwjǭ?
*biwjēs?
*biwjē?
*biwīw
*biwīþiz
*biwīm
*biwīþ
*biwīn
sijau
sijais
sijai
sijaiwa
sijaits
sijaima
sijaiþ
sijaina
sjá
sér



sém
séð

sért



séum
séuð
séu
veri
veri
veri


veri
veri
veri


(vere)






(være)






sē(i)/vari




sēi(n)/vari(n)


(vare)




sīe
sīe
sīe


sīen
sīen
sīen
bēo
bēo
bēo


bēon
bēon
bēon
be
be
be


be
be
be

sīs(t)



sīm, sīn
sī(n)t
sīn
sei
sei(e)st
sei


seien
seiet
seien


sief





sīs(t)



sīn
sīn
sīn
zij

zij


zijn
zij
zijn
Preterite
indicative
*was
*wast
*was
*wēzū
*wēzudiz
*wēzum
*wēzud
*wēzun
was
wast
was
wēsu
wēsuts
wēsum
wēsuþ
wēsun
var
varst
var


várum
várið
váru
var
varst
var


vorum
voruð
voru
var
vart
var


vóru
vóru
vóru
var
var
var


var
var
var
var
var
var


var
var
var
var
vast
var


vārum
vārin
vāru
var
var
var


var (voro)
var (voren)
var (voro)
wæs
wǣre
wæs


wǣron
wǣron
wǣron
was
wast
was


were
were
were
was
wāri
was


wārum
wārut
wārun
war
warst
war


waren
wart
waren
war
waars
war


ware(n)
waart
ware(n)
was
wāri
was


wārun
wārun
wārun
was

was


waren
was/waart*
waren
Preterite
subjunctive
*wēzį̄
*wēzīz
*wēzī
*wēzīw
*wēzīdiz
*wēzīm
*wēzīd
*wēzīn
wēsjau
wēseis
wēsi
wēseiwa
wēseits
wēseima
wēseiþ
wēseina
væra
værir
væri


værim
værið
væri
væri
værir
væri


værum
væruð
væru
væri
væri
væri


væri
væri
væri







var
var
var


var
var
var


vāri




vāri(n)
vore
vore
vore


vore
vore (-en)
vore
wǣre
wǣre
wǣre


wǣren
wǣren
wǣren
were
wert
were


were
were
were
wāri
wārīs
wāri


wārīm
wārīt
wārīn
wäre
wärest
wäre


wären
wäret
wären
wier
wiers
wier


wiere(n)
wiert
wiere(n)
wāri
wāris
wāri


wārin
wārin
wārin
ware

ware


waren
ware
waren
Imperative -
*wes
*wesadau
-
*wesadiz
-
*wisid
*wesandau
-
wis
wisadau

wisats
-
wisiþ
wisandau
-
ver
ver



verið
verið
-
vertu
vertu


-
verið
verið
-
ver
ver


-
verið
verið

ver
ver



ver
ver
-
vær
vær


-
vær
vær

-
-




-
-
var
var


-
var
var
-
wes
wes


-
wesaþ
wesaþ
-
be
be


-
be
be
-
wes
wes


-
wesit
wesit
-
sei
sei


-
seid
seid
-
-
-


-
-
-
-
wes
wes


-
wesad
wesad
-
wees
-


-
weest
-
Past participle verit verið verið vore (vori) vært været varin varit been giwesan gewesen gewiescht (gi)wesan geweest
  • Old English kept the verbs wesan and bēon separate throughout the present stem, though it is not clear that the kind of consistent distinction in usage was made that we find, for example in Spanish. In the preterite, however, the paradigms fell together. Old English has no participle for this verb.
  • The plural forms in Modern Swedish (indicated in brackets) were in common use in formal written language until the mid-20th century, but are now no longer in use except in deliberately archaising texts. The preterite subjunctive is also increasingly being replaced by the indicative, or past participle.
  • Dutch, like English, has abandoned the original second-person singular forms, replacing them with the second-person plural forms. However, while in English the old forms are still in limited and deliberately archaic use, in Dutch they have disappeared entirely and are no longer known or used at all. The forms listed in the plural are the historical plural forms, the 'jij' and 'gij' forms. Dutch formed a new plural pronoun 'jullie' with inflection similar to the 1st and 3rd person plural, but it would be redundant to list them here.

Slavic languages edit

Proto-Slavic
(reconstructed)
Old Church Slavonic Ukrainian Russian Old Polish Polish Czech Slovak Slovenian Serbo-Croatian Bulgarian
Present *(j)esmĭ
*(j)esi
*(j)estĭ
*(j)esvě
*(j)esta
*(j)este
*(j)esmŭ
*(j)este
*sǫtĭ
ѥсмь, jesmĭ
ѥси, jesi
ѥстъ, jestŭ
ѥсвѣ, jesvě
ѥста, jesta
ѥсте, jeste
ѥсмъ, jesmŭ
ѥсте, jeste
сѫтъ, sǫtŭ
(є[сь]м, je[ś]m)
(єси, jesy)
є, je /{єсть, jesť}



((є)сьмо, (je)śmo)
((є)сте, (je)ste)
(суть, suť)
(есмь, jesm')
(еси, jesi)
есть, jest'



(есмо, jesmo)
(есте, jeste)
(суть, sut')
jeśm
jeś
jest, jeść



jeśmy
jeście
jestem, -m
jesteś, -ś
jest



jesteśmy, -śmy
jesteście, -ście
jsem
jsi
je



jsme
jste
jsou
som
si
je



sme
ste
sem
si
je
sva
sta
sta
smo
ste
so
jesam, sam/budem*
jesi, si/budeš
jest, je/bude



jesmo, smo/budemo
jeste, ste/budete
jesu, su/budu
съм, səm
си, si
е, e



сме, sme
сте, ste
са, sə
Imperative
*bǫdi
*bǫdi
*bǫděvě
*bǫděta

*bǫděmŭ
*bǫděte
*bǫdǫ

бѫди, bǫdi
бѫди, bǫdi
бѫдѣвѣ, bǫděvě
бѫдѣта, bǫděta

бѫдѣмъ, bǫděmŭ
бѫдѣте, bǫděte
бѫдѫ, bǫdǫ

будь, buď




будьмо, buďmo
будьте, buďte

будь, bud’





будьте, bud’te

bądź




bądźmy
bądźcie

bywaj/bądź




bywajmy/bądźmy
bywajcie/bądźcie

buď




buďme
buďte

buď




buďme
buďte

bodi

bodiva
bodita

bodimo
bodite

budi
(neka bude)



budimo
budite
(neka budu)

бъди, bədi





бъдете, bədete

Future *bǫdǫ
*bǫdešĭ
*bǫdetĭ
*bǫdevě
*bǫdeta
*bǫdete
*bǫdemŭ
*bǫdete
*bǫdǫtĭ
бѫдѫ, bǫdǫ
бѫдеши, bǫdeši
бѫдетъ, bǫdetŭ
бѫдевѣ, bǫdevě
бѫдета, bǫdeta
бѫдете, bǫdete
бѫдемъ, bǫdemŭ
бѫдете, bǫdete
бѫдѫтъ, bǫdǫtŭ
буду, budu
будеш, budeš
буде, bude



будемо, budemo
будете, budete
будуть, buduť
буду, budu
будешь, budeš'
будет, budet



будем, budem
будете, budete
будут, budut
będę
będziesz
będzie



będziemy
będziecie
będą
będę
będziesz
będzie



będziemy
będziecie
będą
budu
budeš
bude



budeme
budete
budou
budem
budeš
bude



budeme
budete
budú
bom, bodem
boš, bodeš
bo, bode
bova, bodeva
bosta, bodesta
bosta, bodesta
bomo, bodemo
boste, bodeste
bodo, bojo
budem
budeš
bude



budemo
budete
budu
ще бъда, šte bədə
ще бъдеш, šte bədeš
ще бъде, šte bəde



ще бъдем, šte bədem
ще бъдете, šte bədete
ще бъдат, šte bədət
Imperfect *běaxŭ
*běaše
*běaše
*běaxově
*běašeta
*běašete
*běaxomŭ
*běašete
*běaxǫ
бѣахъ, běaxŭ
бѣаше, běaše
бѣаше, běaše
бѣаховѣ, běaxově
бѣашета, běašeta
бѣашете, běašete
бѣахомъ, běaxomŭ
бѣашете, běašeте
бѣахѫ, běaxǫ
biech
biesze
biesze



biechom
bieszecie
biechą
bijah, b(j)eh
bijaše, b(j)eše
bijaše, b(j)eše



bijasmo, b(j)esmo
bijaste, b(j)este
bijahu, b(j)ehu
бях, bjah
бе[ше], be[še]
бе[ше], be[še]



бяхме, bjahme
бяхте, bjahte
бяха, bjahə
Aorist *byxŭ
*by(stŭ?)
*by(stŭ?)
*byxově
*bysta
*byste
*byxomŭ
*byste
*byšę
бꙑхъ, byxŭ
бꙑ(стъ), by(stŭ)
бꙑ(стъ) by(stŭ)
бꙑховѣ, byxově
бꙑста, bysta
бꙑсте, byste
бꙑхомъ, byxomŭ
бꙑсте, byste
бꙑшѧ, byšę
bych
by
by



bychom
byście
bychą
Conditional copula bym
byś
by



byśmy
byście
by
bych
bys
by



bychom
byste
by
(bi)
bi
bi
(bi)
(bi)
(bi)
(bi)
(bi)
(bi)
bih
bi
bi



bismo
biste
biše
бих, bih
би, bi
би, bi



бихме, bihme
бихте, bihte
биха, bihə
Present active participle *sy m.
*sǫťi f.
*sy n.
сꙑ, sy m.
сѫщи, sǫšti f.
сꙑ, sy n.
sący m.
sąca f.
sące n.
jsoucí (същ, səšt m.)
(съща, səšta f.)
(също, səšto n.)
Future active participle *bǫdy m.
*bǫdǫťi f.
*bǫdy n.
бѫдꙑ, bǫdy m.
бѫдѫщи, bǫdǫšti f.
бѫдꙑ, bǫdy n.
будущий, buduščij m.
будущая, buduščaja f.
будущее, buduščeje n.
będący m.
będąca f.
będące n.
będący m.
będąca f.
będące n.
budoucí m.
budoucí f.
budoucí n.
budúci m.
budúca f.
budúce n.
bodoči m.
bodoča f.
bodoče n.
budući m.
buduća f.
buduće n.
(бъдещ, bədešt m.)
(бъдещa, bədeštа f.)
(бъдещо, bədeštо n.)
Present gerund будучи sąc
będąc
będąc jsa

jsouc jsouce

бъдейки
Past active participle *byvŭ m.
*byvŭši f.
*byvŭ n.
бꙑвъ, byvŭ m.
бꙑвъши, byvŭši f.
бꙑвъ, byvŭ n.
бывший, byvšij m.
бывшая, byvšaja f.
бывшее, byvšeje n.
bywszy m.
bywsza f.
bywsze n.
bywszy m.
bywsza f.
bywsze n.
byvší m.
byvšia f.
byvšie n.
bivši m.
bivša f.
bivše n.
bivši m.
bivša f.
bivše n.
(бивш, bivš m.)
(бивша, bivša f.)
(бивше, bivše n.)
Past gerund бувши bywszy bywszy byv

byvši byvše

-
Resultative participle *bylŭ m.
*byla f.
*bylo n.
бꙑлъ, bylŭ m.
бꙑла, byla f.
бꙑло, bylo n.
був, buw m.
була, bula f.
було, bulo n.
был, byl m.
была, byla f.
было, bylo n.
był m.
była f.
było n.
był m.
była f.
było n.
byl m.
byla f.
bylo n.
bol m.
bola f.
bolo n.
bil m.
bila f.
bilo n.
bio m.
bila f.
bilo n.
бил, bil m.
била, bila f.
било, bilo n.
Verbal or deverbal noun *bytĭje бꙑтиѥ, bytije буття́, buttja бытьё, bytʹjó bycie bycie bytí bytie bītje biće -
Infinitive *byti бꙑти, byti бути, buty быть, byt' być być být byť biti biti -
Supine - - - - - - - - bit - -
  • In Russian, the present forms are archaic and no longer in common use, except for the third person forms, which are used in "there is/are" type phrases.
  • In Ukrainian, the present tense forms of the verb "бути" have all but disappeared from contemporary language, except for the third person form which is used in existential phrases; єсть (jesť) is archaic and encountered only in poetry. All participles have turned into other parts of speech, future and past active participles becoming present and past active adverbial participle respectively,[11] and resultative pariciple becoming past tense of verbs.
  • In Serbo-Croatian the forms jesam, jesi, jeste and so on are used as the basic form of the Present Tense "to be" (i.e. I am, you are etc.), while the forms budem, budeš, bude etc. are used only for the formation of the Future Perfect.
  • In Bulgarian, forms бъда, бъдеш, etc. are not used by themselves but only in compound forms (future ще бъда, subjunctive да бъда). In this respect they closely follow the usage (and non-usage) of perfective verbs. As such it has its own forms for the aorist (бидох, биде, биде, бидохме, бидохте, 'бидоха), the imperfect (бъдех, бъдеше, бъдеше, бъдехме, бъдехте, бъдеха) and the resultative participle (бъдел). Another verb - бивам with fully regular conjugation type III paradigm - completes an aspect triple: imperfective съм, perfective бъда, secondary imperfective бивам. The perfective aorist has lost its original meaning and is now used only to form the compound conditional mood (бих чел = I would read). All participles except the resultative participle (бил) have lost their function and are now used as regular adjectives with changed meanings (същ = same, бивш = previous, ex-, бъдещ = future).
  • In Polish, the present forms, except for jest and są, have turned into suffixes (-m, , -śmy, -ście) used primarily to construct the past tense and the conditional clitic. The modern conjugation comes from attaching these suffixes onto the third person singular form jest.

Baltic languages edit

Lithuanian Latvian
Infinitive būti būt
Present esu, esmi (rare), esmì (obsol.), būnu
esì, būni (rare)
yra, esti, estì (obsol.), esa (rare), būna
esmè (obsol.), esame, būname (rare)
estè (obsol.), esate, būnate (rare)
yra, esti (rare), esa (rare), būna (rare)
esmu, esu (vernacular)
esi
ir
esam
esat
ir
Past simple buvau
buvai
buvo
buvome
buvote
buvo
biju
biji
bija
bijām
bijāt
bija
Past active participle buvęs (m. sg.)
buvusi (f. sg.)
buvę (m. pl.)
buvusios (f. pl.)
bijis (m. sg.)
bijusi (f. sg.)
bijuši (m. pl.)
bijušas (f. pl.)
Future būsiu
būsi
bus
būsime
būsite
bus
būšu
būsi
būs
būsim
būsiet, būsit
būs
Imperative
būk

būkime
būkite

esi

būsim
esiet
Quotative esot, būšot
Conditional būčiau
būtum
būtų
būtumėme
būtumėte
būtų
būtu

In Lithuanian, the paradigm būnu, būni, būna, etc. is not considered archaic or dialectal but rather a special use of the verb būti, to be, mostly used to describe repeated actions or states, or habits.

Celtic languages edit

In the Celtic languages there is a distinction between the so-called substantive verb, used when the predicate is an adjective phrase or prepositional phrase, and the so-called copula, used when the predicate is a noun.

The conjugation of the Old Irish and Middle Welsh verbs is as follows:

Old Irish substantive verb Old Irish copula Middle Welsh
Present (at)·tó
(at)·taí
(at)·tá
(at)·taam
(at)·taïd
(at)·taat
am
at
is
ammi
adib
it
wyf
wyt
yw, mae, taw, oes
ym
ych
ynt, maen(t)
Preterite ·bá
·bá
·boí
·bámmar
·baid
·bátar
basa
basa
ba
bommar
unattested
batar
buum
buost
bu
buam
buawch
buant
Future bia
bie
bieid, ·bia
beimmi, ·biam
bethe, ·bieid
bieit, ·biat
be
be
bid
bimmi
unattested
bit
bydaf
bydy
byd
bydwn
bydwch
bydant

The forms of the Old Irish present tense of the substantive verb, as well as Welsh taw, come from the PIE root *stā-. The other forms are from the roots *es- and *bhū-. Welsh mae originally meant "here is" (cf. yma 'here').

Irish and Scottish Gaelic edit

In modern Gaelic, person inflections have almost disappeared, but the negative and interrogative are marked by distinctive forms. In Irish, particularly in the south, person inflections are still very common for the tá/bhí series. [note 1]

The verb bí edit
  Scottish Gaelic Irish
(analytic) (synthetic)
Present affirmative tha 1 táim, 2 †táir, 3 tá, 1pl táimíd, 2pl †táthaoi, 3pl táid
negative chan eil níl (< ní fhuil) 1 nílim, 2 †nílir, 3 níl, 1pl nílimíd, 2pl †níltí, 3pl nílid
interrogative a bheil an bhfuil 1 an bhfuilim, 2 †an bhfuilir, 3 an bhfuil, 1pl an bhfuilimíd, 2pl †an bhfuiltí, 3pl an bhfuilid
negative interrogative nach eil nach bhfuil 1 nach bhuilim, 2 †nach bhfuilir, 3 nach bhfuil, 1pl nach bhfuílimíd, 2pl †nach bhfuiltí, 3pl nach bhfuilid
Past affirmative bha bhí 1 bhíos, 2 bhís, 3 bhí, 1pl bhiomair, 2pl bhíobhair, 3pl bhíodar
negative cha robh ní raibh 1 rabhas, 2 rabhais, 3 raibh, 1pl rabhamair, 2pl rabhabhair, 3pl rabhadar
interrogative an robh an raibh an
negative interrogative nach robh nach raibh nach
Future affirmative bidh (or "bithidh") beidh 1 bead, 2 beir, 3 beidh, 1pl beimíd, 2pl beidh sibh, 3pl beid
negative cha bhi ní bheidh 1 bhead, 2 bheir, 3 bheidh, 1pl bheimíd, 2pl bheidh sibh, 3pl bheid
interrogative am bi an mbeidh an 1 mbead, 2 mbeir, 3 mbeidh, 1pl mbeimíd, 2pl mbeidh sibh, 3pl mbeid
negative interrogative nach bi nach mbeidh nach

† archaic forms

Gaelic (bh)eil and Irish (bh)fuil are from Old Irish fuil, originally an imperative meaning "see!" (PIE root *wel-, also in Welsh gweled, Germanic wlitu- "appearance", and Latin voltus "face"), then coming to mean "here is" (cf. French voici < vois ci and voilà < vois là), later becoming a suppletive dependent form of at-tá. Gaelic robh and Modern Irish raibh are from the perfective particle ro (ry in Welsh) plus ba (lenited after ro).

The copula[12] edit
Scottish Gaelic Irish
Before a consonant Before a vowel Before a consonant Before a vowel
Present affirmative
interrogative
negative
negative interrogative
is


is
an

nach
is
an

nach
Past/Conditional affirmative
interrogative
negative
negative interrogative
bu


ba
ar
níor
nár
b'
arbh
níorbh
nárbh


Modern Welsh edit

The present tense in particular shows a split between the North and the South. Though the situation is undoubtedly more complicated, King (2003) notes the following variations in the present tense as spoken (not as written according to the standard orthography):

Affirmative (I am) Interrogative (Am I?) Negative (I am not)
Singular Plural Singular Plural Singular Plural
North First person dw dan ydw? ydan? (dy)dw (dy)dan
Second person —, (r)wyt dach wyt? (y)dach? dwyt (dy)dach
Third person mae maen ydy? ydyn? dydy dydyn
South First person rw, w ŷn, — ydw? ŷn? (d)w ŷn
Second person —, (r)wyt ych wyt? ych? (ych)
Third person mae maen ydy?, yw? ŷn? dyw ŷn

For example, the spoken first person singular dw i'n is a contraction of the formal written yr ydwyf fi yn . The Welsh F /v/ is the fricative analogue of the nasal /m/, the PIE suffix consonant for the first person singular.

Affirmative (I am) Interrogative (Am I?) Negative (I am not)
Singular Plural Singular Plural Singular Plural
Preterite First person bues buon fues? fuon? fues fuon
Second person buest buoch fuest? fuoch? fuest fuoch
Third person buodd buon fuodd? fuon? fuodd fuon
Imperfect First person roeddwn roedden oeddwn? oedden? doeddwn doedden
Second person roeddet roeddech oeddet? oeddech? doeddet doeddech
Third person roedd roeddyn oedd? oeddyn? doedd doeddyn
Future First person bydda byddwn fydda? fyddwn? fydda fyddwn
Second person byddi byddwch fyddi? fyddwch? fyddi fyddwch
Third person bydd byddan fydd? fyddan? fydd fyddan

Bod also has a conditional, for which there are two stems. The bas- stem is more common in the North, and the bydd- stem is more common in the South:

Affirmative Interrogative Negative
Singular Plural Singular Plural Singular Plural
bydd- First person byddwn bydden fyddwn fydden fyddwn? fydden?
Second person byddet byddech fyddet fyddech fyddet? fyddech?
Third person byddai bydden fyddai fydden fyddai? fydden?
bas- First person baswn basen faswn fasen faswn? fasen?
Second person baset basech faset fasech faset? fasech?
Third person basai basen fasai fasen fasai? fasen?

Hittite edit

The Hittite verb "to be" is derived from the Indo-European root *h1es-.

  Present indicative Preterite indicative Imperative
1st sg. ēšmi ešun ēšlit
ēšlut
ašallu
2nd sg. ēšši ēšta ēš
3rd sg. ēšzi ēšta ēšdu
1st pl. (ašweni) ēšwen
2nd pl. ēšteni ēšten ēšten
3rd pl. ašanzi ešer ašandu

Armenian edit

The Classical Armenian present tense derives from PIE *h₁es- (cf. sg. h₁esmi, h₁essi, h₁esti; 3rd pl. h₁s-énti).[13]

  present
1st sg. em
2nd sg. es
3rd sg. ē
1st pl. enkʿ
2nd pl. ēkʿ
3rd pl. en

Albanian edit

The Albanian copula shows two distinct roots. The present jam ‘I am’ is an athematic root stem built from PIE *h₁es-. The imperfect continues the PIE imperfect of the same root but was rebuilt based on the 3rd person singular and plural. The preterite, on the other hand, comes from the thematic aorist of PIE *kʷel- ‘turn’ (cf. Ancient Greek épleto ‘he turned’, Armenian eɫew ‘he became’, Old Irish cloïd ‘turns back, defeats’). Analogical or otherwise indirect reflexes are italicized below.

  PIE present PIE → PAlb rebuilt imperfect (NE Arvanitic) imperfect (standard Alb) PIE → PAlb preterite
1st sg. *h₁ésmi jam *h₁és-m̥ → *eham *eśen jeshë isha *kʷl-e-m̥ → *klen qeshë, OAlb qeva
2nd sg. *h₁ési je *h₁és → *eh *eśeh jeshe ishe *kʷl-e-s → *kleh qe
3rd sg. *h₁ésti ishtë (dial.)
ësht (standard)
*h₁és-t → *eśt *eśt je ish → ishte *kʷl-e-to → *kleta kle → qe
1st pl. *h₁s-méi jemi *h₁s-m̥é → *emma/e *eśema/e jeshëmë ishim *kʷl-e-mé → *klema/e qemë
2nd pl. *esi (2nd sg.) + -ni jeni *h₁s-té → *eśtā *eśetā jeshëtë ishit *kʷl-e-té → *kletā qetë
3rd pl. *h₁s-nti janë *h₁s-énd → *eśend *eśend ishinë ishin *kʷl-e-nd → *klend qenë

Notes edit

  1. ^ Colin Mark has suggested that the Scots Gaelic substantive verb forms can be treated as assertive forms of the copula;[14] since the verb is in any case suppletive, this is a matter of perspective.

References edit

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  2. ^ Jasanoff, Jay (2003). Hittite and the Indo-European Verb. Oxford University Press. p. 112. ISBN 0-19-928198-X.
  3. ^ Calvert Watkins, American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots.
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indo, european, copula, this, article, about, indo, european, linguistics, other, uses, copula, disambiguation, this, article, contains, characters, used, write, reconstructed, proto, indo, european, words, explanation, notation, proto, indo, european, phonolo. This article is about Indo European linguistics For other uses see Copula disambiguation This article contains characters used to write reconstructed Proto Indo European words for an explanation of the notation see Proto Indo European phonology Without proper rendering support you may see question marks boxes or other symbols instead of Unicode combining characters and Latin characters A feature common to all Indo European languages is the presence of a verb corresponding to the English verb to be Contents 1 General features 2 The Proto Indo European PIE roots 2 1 h1es 2 2 bʰuH 2 3 h2wes 2 4 h1er 2 5 steh2 3 The resulting paradigms 3 1 Indo Iranian languages 3 1 1 Indic languages 3 1 1 1 Sanskrit 3 1 1 2 Hindi Urdu 3 1 1 3 Bengali 3 1 1 4 Nepali 3 1 2 Iranic languages 3 1 2 1 Persian 3 2 Hellenic languages 3 2 1 Greek 3 3 Italic languages 3 4 Germanic languages 3 5 Slavic languages 3 6 Baltic languages 3 7 Celtic languages 3 7 1 Irish and Scottish Gaelic 3 7 1 1 The verb bi 3 7 1 2 The copula 12 3 7 2 Modern Welsh 3 8 Hittite 3 9 Armenian 3 10 Albanian 4 Notes 5 ReferencesGeneral features editThis verb has two basic meanings In a less marked context it is a simple copula I m tired That s a shame a function which in non Indo European languages can be expressed quite differently In a more heavily marked context it expresses existence I think therefore I am the dividing line between these is not always easy to draw Some languages have shared these functions between several verbs Irish Spanish and Persian all have multiple equivalents of to be making a variety of distinctions Many Indo European languages also use the verb to be as an auxiliary for the formation of compound periphrastic tenses I m working I was bitten Other functions vary from language to language For example although in its basic meanings to be is a stative verb English puts it to work as a dynamic verb in fixed collocations You are being very annoying The copula is the most irregular verb in many Indo European languages This is partly because it is more frequently used than any other and partly because Proto Indo European offered more than one verb suitable for use in these functions with the result that the daughter languages in different ways have tended to form suppletive verb paradigms This article describes the way in which the irregular forms have developed from a series of roots The Proto Indo European PIE roots edit h1es edit nbsp Look up Reconstruction Proto Indo European h es in Wiktionary the free dictionary The root h1es was certainly already a copula in Proto Indo European The e grade h1es see Indo European ablaut is found in such forms as English is Irish is German ist Latin est Sanskrit asti Persian ast Old Church Slavonic jestĭ The zero grade h1s produces forms beginning with s like German sind Latin sumus Vedic Sanskrit smas etc In PIE h1es was an athematic verb in mi that is the first person singular was h1esmi this inflection survives in English am Pashto yem Persian am Sanskrit asmi Bengali first person verb ending am Old Church Slavonic esmĭ etc This verb is generally reconstructed for Proto Indo European thus 1 Person Presentindicative Imperfectindicative Subjunctive Optative Imperative1st singular h1es mi h1es m h1es oh2 h1s ieh1 m 2nd singular h1es i h1es h1es esi h1s ieh1 s h1es h1s dʰi3rd singular h1es ti h1es t h1es eti h1s ieh1 t h1es tu1st dual h1s uos h1s ue h1es owos h1s ih1 we 2nd dual h1s tes h1s tom h1es etes h1s ih1 tom h1s tom3rd dual h1s tes h1s ta m h1es etes h1s ih1 ta m h1s ta m1st plural h1s m os h1s m e h1es omos h1s ih1 me 2nd plural h1s te h1s te h1es ete h1s ih1 te h1s te3rd plural h1s enti h1s end h1es onti h1s ih1 end h1s entu bʰuH edit The root bʰuH or bʰuh which did not have ablaut variations in the protolanguage 2 probably meant to grow but also to become This is the source of the English infinitive be and participle been Also for example the Scottish Gaelic future tense bithidh the Irish imperative bi past bhi and future beidh the Welsh bod along with the other b initial forms Persian imperative bov past bud and future bas and the Slavic infinitive and past etc for example Russian byt byt byl byl PIE bʰ became Latin f hence the Latin future participle futurus and perfect fui Latin fiō I become is also from this root as is the Greek verb fyw phuō from which physics and physical are derived bʰuH was a preterito present verb i e Imperfect endings for Present and can be reconstructed as follows 1 Person Indicative Subjunctive Optative Imperative1st singular bʰuH m bʰuH oh2 bʰuH yeh1 m 2nd singular bʰuH s bʰuH esi bʰuH yeh1 s bʰuH bʰuH dʰi3rd singular bʰuH t bʰuH eti bʰuH yeh1 t bʰuH tu1st dual bʰuH we bʰuH owos bʰuH ih1 we 2nd dual bʰuH tom bʰuH etes bʰuH ih1 tom bʰuH tom3rd dual bʰuH ta m bʰuH etes bʰuH ih1 ta m bʰuH ta m1st plural bʰuH me bʰuH omos bʰuH ih1 me 2nd plural bʰuH te bʰuH ete bʰuH ih1 te bʰuH te3rd plural bʰuH end bʰuH onti bʰuH ih1 end bʰuH entu h2wes edit The root h2wes may originally have meant to live 1 and has been productive in all Germanic languages The e grade is present in the German participle gewesen the o grade wos survives in English and Old High German was while the lengthened e grade wes gives us English were The Germanic forms with r instead of s result from grammatischer Wechsel See Germanic strong verb Class 5 h1er edit This has been claimed as the origin of the Old Norse and later Scandinavian languages present stem Old Norse em ert er erum erud eru the second person forms of which were borrowed into English as art and are 3 page needed It has also been seen as the origin of the Latin imperfect eram eras erat and future tenses ero eris erit However other authorities link these forms with h1es and assume grammatischer Wechsel s r although this is not normally found in the present stem Donald Ringe argues that the copula was sometimes unaccented in Pre Proto Germanic which would have then triggered the voicing under Verner s law 1 page needed He explains the Germanic first person singular form immi as such deriving it from earlier ezmi since zm but not sm was assimilated to mm in Germanic for which other evidence exists as well Furthermore the third person plural form sindi from PIE h senti shows that this word too was unaccented If the accent had been preserved it would have become sinthi but that form is not found in any Germanic language In this view it is likely that stressed and unstressed varieties of the copula with corresponding voiceless and voiced fricatives existed side by side in Germanic and the involvement of a separate root h er is unnecessary The Latin forms could be explained by rhotacism steh2 edit The root s teh2 meant to stand From this root comes the present stem of the so called substantive verb in Irish and Scottish Gaelic ta and tha respectively as well as taw in Welsh On the absence of the initial s in Celtic see Indo European s mobile In Latin stō stare retained the meaning to stand until local forms of Vulgar Latin began to use it as a copula in certain circumstances Today this survives in that several Romance languages Galician Portuguese Spanish Catalan use it as one of their two copulae and there is also a Romance tendency for a past participle derived from steh2 to replace the original one of the copula this occurs in French Italian and the main dialects of Catalan See also Romance copula Although in Dutch this verb retains its primary meaning of stand it is used in an auxiliary like function that only has a secondary meaning of standing for example ik sta te koken I am cooking literally I stand to cook While it is not a full copula it can normally only be used as an auxiliary with another verb it does have shades of meaning that resemble that of the Italian sto cucinando I am cooking The intransitive verbs zitten to sit liggen to lie and lopen to walk run are used in similar ways In Swedish which usually lacks gerund forms the corresponding sta is often used similarly along with sitta to sit ligga to lie and ga to walk In Hindustani the past tense of the copula hona to be which are tʰa tʰe tʰi and tʰi are derived from Sanskrit stʰa Gujarati has a cognate verb tʰavũ to happen cf Bengali aorist tʰa to stay as well The resulting paradigms editIndo Iranian languages edit Indic languages edit Sanskrit edit The Vedic Sanskrit root as to be is derived from the Indo European root h1es Mood Tense Indicative Optative ImperativePresent Perfect Imperfect Periphrasatic FutureVoice Active Passivesingular 1st asmi he asa asam asitasmi syam asani2nd asi se asitha asiḥ asitasi syaḥ edhi3rd asti ste asa asit asita syat astudual 1st svaḥ svahe asiva asva asitasvaḥ syava asava2nd sthaḥ sathe asathuḥ astam asitasthaḥ syatam stam3rd staḥ sate asatuḥ astam asitarau syatam stamplural 1st smaḥ smahe asima asma asitasmaḥ syama asama2nd stha dhve asa asta asitastha syata sta3rd santi sate asuḥ asan asitaraḥ syuḥ santubhu to be is derived from Indo European bʰuH Mood Tense Indicative Conditional Optative Aorist Injunctive Benedictive ImperativePresent Perfect Imperfect Future Periphrasatic FutureVoice Active Passive Active Passive Active Passive Active Passive Active Passive Active Passivesingular 1st bhavami bhuye babhuva abhavam abhuye bhaviṣyami bhavitasmi abhaviṣyam bhaveyam bhuyeya abhuvam bhuvam bhuyasam bhavani bhuyai2nd bhavasi bhuyase babhuvitha abhavaḥ abhuyathaḥ bhaviṣyasi bhavitasi abhaviṣyaḥ bhaveḥ bhuyethaḥ abhuḥ bhuḥ bhuyaḥ bhava bhuyasva3rd bhavati bhuyate babhuva abhavat abhuyata bhaviṣyati bhavita abhaviṣyat bhavet bhuyeta abhut abhavi bhut bhavi bhuyat bhavatu bhuyatamdual 1st bhavavaḥ bhuyavahe babhuviva abhavava abhuyavahi bhaviṣyavaḥ bhavitasvaḥ abhaviṣyava bhaveva bhuyevahi abhuva bhuva bhuyasva bhavava bhuyavahai2nd bhavathaḥ bhuyethe babhuvathuḥ abhavatam abhuyetham bhaviṣyathaḥ bhavitasthaḥ abhaviṣyatam bhavetam bhuyeyatham abhutam bhutam bhuyastam bhavatam bhuyetham3rd bhavataḥ bhuyete babhuvatuḥ abhavatam abhuyetam bhaviṣyataḥ bhavitarau abhaviṣyatam bhavetam bhuyeyatam abhutam bhutam bhuyastam bhavatam bhuyetamplural 1st bhavamaḥ bhuyamahe babhuvima abhavama abhuyamahi bhaviṣyamaḥ bhavitasmaḥ abhaviṣyama bhavema bhuyemahi abhuma bhuma bhuyasma bhavama bhuyamahai2nd bhavatha bhuyadhve babhuva abhavata abhuyadhvam bhaviṣyatha bhavitastha abhaviṣyata bhaveta bhuyedhvam abhuta bhuta bhuyasta bhavata bhuyadhvam3rd bhavanti bhuyante babhuvuḥ abhavan abhuyanta bhaviṣyanti bhavitaraḥ abhaviṣyan bhaveyuḥ bhuyeran abhuvan bhuvan bhuyasuḥ bhavantu bhuyantamHindi Urdu edit Main article Hindi verbs Verb Paradigm In modern Hindi Urdu Hindustani the Sanskrit verb अस as to be which is derived from the Indo European root h1es has developed into the present indicative forms of the verb ह न ہونا hona to be 4 The infinitive ह न ہونا hona itself is derived from the Sanskrit verb root भ bʱu which is derived from Indo European root bhuH The indicative imperfect forms of ह न ہونا hona comes from Sanskrit स थ त stʰita standing situated which are derived from the PIE root steh to stand 5 ह न ہونا hona is the only verb in Hindi Urdu to have the present indicative imperfect indicative presumptive mood and the present subjunctive conjugations and all the other verbs in Hindi Urdu lack them 6 The verb ह न ہونا hona can be translated as to be to exist to happen or to have depending on the context and when used in the third person it could also be translated as there is are Many verbs conjugations in Hindi Urdu are derived from participles and hence are gendered and numbered and they agree with either the object or the subject of the sentence depending on the grammatical case of the subject of the sentence When the subject is in the ergative or the dative case seeː dative construction amp quirky subject the verb agrees in gender and number with the object of the sentence and with the subject when the subject is in the nominative case PERSONAL FORMS of hona to be mood tense first person second personsingular familiar1 2 intimate formal1 2 3 indicative present hu ho hai ha iperfect hua hui hue hui hua hui hue hui imperfect tha thi the thi tha thi the thi future hou ga hou gi hooge hoogi hoega hoegi hoẽge hoẽgipresumptive all hu ga hu gi hoge hogi hoga hogi hoge hogisubjunctive present hu ho ho hofuture hou hoo hoe hoẽfuture5 hua hui hue hui hua hui hue hui contrafactual past hota hoti hote hoti hota hoti hote hoti imperative present hoo ho hoiyefuture hona hoiyo hoiyega IMPERSONAL FORMS of hona to be Stem hoInfinitive honaOblique Infinitive honeConjunctive hokar hokeProgressive hote hotePARTICIPLES singular plural singular pluralInfinitive hona hone honi honi Prospective honevala honevale honevali honevali AgentiveHabitual Aspect hota hote hoti hoti Perfective Aspect hua hue hui hui Perfective Adjectival4 hua hua hue hue hui hui hui hui Imperfective Adjectival4 hota hua hote hue hoti hui hoti hui 1 the second person familiar and formal conjugations are grammatically plural and can be used in both singular and plural sense akin to the English pronoun you 2 the third person singular and plural conjugations are respectively the same as the second person intimate and formal conjugations 3 the first person plural pronoun conjugations are the same as the second person formal conjugations 4 the second adjoined part of the adjectival participles hua hue hui amp hui are respectively shortened to wa we wi amp wi in speech 5 the future perfective subjunctive has the same form as the indicative perfect It is only used with if clauses and relative clauses 7 8 Bengali edit Bengali is considered a zero copula language however there are notable exceptions In the simple present tense there is no verb connecting the subject to the predicative the zero verb copula but when the predicate expresses ideas of existence location or possession for such cases the verb আছ ach can be roughly translated as to exist or to be present In the past tense the incomplete verb আছ ach is always used as the copula regardless of the nature of the predicative For the future tense and non finite structures the copula is supplied by the verb হওয howa with the exceptions being the possessive and locative predicatives for which the verb থ ক thaka to remain is utilized Bengali does not have a verb for possession i e to have to own Instead possession in Bengali is expressed by the verb আছ ach for present and past tenses and the verb থ ক thaka for future tense inflected with the possessed object and a genitive case for the possessor Bengali verbs are highly inflected and are regular with only few exceptions They consist of a stem and an ending they are traditionally listed in Bengali dictionaries in their verbal noun form which is usually formed by adding a to the stem for instance কর kora to do is formed from the stem কর kor The stem can end in either a vowel or a consonant Nepali edit The copula verb of Nepali has two sets of conjugations The ह ho set is used in sentences that equate two things like त य क त ब ह tyo kitab ho That is a book The छ cha set is used in sentences that describe something or locate where something is like त य ठ ल छ tyo ṭhulo cha That is big Singular present tense forms of the copulas in Nepali are shown in the table below Pronoun ह ho define identify छ cha describe qualify Positive Negative Positive Negative1st म ma ह hũ ह इन hoina छ chũ छ न chaina 2nd Familiar त म timi ह hau ह इन hoinau छ chau छ न chainau Formal तप ई tapaiṃ ह न ह न छ hunuhuncha ह न ह न न hunuhunna ह न ह न छ hunuhuncha ह न ह न न hunuhunna 3rd Familiar य yo त य tyo ह ho ह इन hoina छ cha छ न chaina Formal वह vaha ह न ह न छ hunuhuncha ह न ह न न hunuhunna ह न ह न छ hunuhuncha ह न ह न न hunuhunna Iranic languages edit Persian edit With regard to the function of the verb to be as a copula the most conspicuous feature of Modern Persian language is the evolution of an existential be hast exists out of ast is In fact when studying the forms and functions of to be one might find certain characteristics specific to Persian that are worth pondering upon 9 i e even without considering the diachronic evolution of Modern Persian language and its relation to Ancient Iranian languages such as Old Persian and Avestan whose usage of the verb to be seems more close to Sanskrit Paradoxically despite the fact that Persian is apparently the only Indo European language that has created an existential be out of the copula it has simultaneously made an extreme use of the latter to produce a general paradigm for conjugating all Persian verbs Historically speaking like most of Indo European languages that make use of suppletive roots to denote to be Persian integrates Proto Indo European PIE verbs h1es to be and bhuH to grow gt to become gt to be Hence while Persian infinitive budan to be lt PIE bhuH forms the past stem of the verb e g Persian bud was or acts as an auxiliary verb in formation of pluperfect of other verbs its present tense is solely based on the derivatives of PIE h1es It is in fact from the declension of PIE h1es to be that six present stems have been created and assigned to the 1st 2nd and 3rd person singular and plural to act as the present tense conjugation of Persian budan to be as shown in the following table Persian English Persian English1st Person am I am im we are2nd Person i thou art id you are3rd Person ast a he she it is and they areAs an example in the following sentences the present forms of the verb to be are used as copulas or predicates Persian Englishman doxtar e to am I am thy daughter in baradar e man ast a or e This is my brother to pedar e man i Thou art my father Furthermore as endings added to the stem of the verbs these declensional forms have been grammaticalized to shape a general paradigm for the grammatical conjugation of all other verbs these endings were once auxiliary verbs which evolved into an enclitic This generalized conjugational paradigm is also applied to the past tense of the verb budan shown in the table below However what is linguistically notable is the emergence of an existential be out of the copula viz hast exists out of ast is The evolution of this exceptional form might go back to ancient Iranian languages where ast could have two variants cf Avestan which has both as and has lt PIE h1es be In the next phase what we may call a pseudo verb appeared vis the verb hastan to exist has been analogically evolved from hast exists and has been conjugated like any other Persian verb e g hast am literally I am existence I exist The simple past conjugation of the verb budan to be is in fact formed by a double copula in the sense that both the stem and the ending are copulas the past stem of the verb bud is derived from PIE bhuH while the endings are from the suppletive form of PIE h1es to be with the exception of 3rd person singular which has zero ending for the all Persian verbs in the past tense Singular English Enclitic copula Plural English Enclitic copulabudam I was ام am budim we were ايم imbudi thou wast اى i budid you were اید idbud buda he she it was O a budand they were اند andThe present perfect conjugation of the verb budan to be is a double copula paradigm as it is produced by addition of all enclitic copulas to the past participle of the verb bude been Singular English Enclitic copula Plural English Enclitic copulabudeam I have been am budeim we have been imbudei thou hast been i budeid you have been idbude ast bude a he she it has been ast a budeand they have been andThe pseudo verb hastan to exist has only simple present tense in addition it is truly and purely existencial only in the case of third person singular hast The fact is that the verb has been the product of this very case as an existential is hast he she it exists For other persons the conjugation has to use enclitic copulas These copulas are in turn derived from the declension of PIE h1es to be as if the predicative to be has been an auxiliary verb turned into enclitic to provide six endings for 1st 2nd 3rd person singular amp plural However as it is said the 3rd person singular has no ending in the case of hastan That is to say that the existential hast exists which is like the alter ego of the copula ast is takes no ending while the present stem of all other verbs take an archaic ending ad in their 3rd person singular Singular English Enclitic copula Plural English Enclitic copulahastam I exist am hastim we exist imhasti thou existest i hastid you exist idhast he she it exists ad gt O a hastand they exist andHellenic languages edit Greek edit The Ancient Greek verb eimi I am is derived from the Indo European root h1es Homeric Greek Classical Attic Modern GreekPresent indicative 1st sg 2nd sg 3rd sg 1st pl 2nd pl 3rd pl eἰmi eimi eἶs ἐssi eis essi ἐsti n esti n eἰmen eimen ἐste este eἰsi n ἔasi eisi n easi eἰmi eimi eἶ ei ἐsti n esti n ἐsmen esmen ἐste este eἰsi n eisi n eimai ime eisai ise einai ine eimaste imaste eisaste eiste isaste iste einai ine Preterite indicative 1st sg 2nd sg 3rd sg 1st pl 2nd pl 3rd pl ἦa ἔon ea eon ἦs8a ἔhs8a estha eestha ἦ e n ἔhn e e n een ἦmen emen ἦte ete ἦsan esan ἦ n e n ἦs ἦs8a es estha ἦn en ἦmen emen ἦste ἔate este eate ἦsan ἔsan esan esan hmoyn imun hsoyn isun htan itan hmastan imaste imastan hsastan isaste isastan htan hsan itan isan Subjunctive 1st sg 2nd sg 3rd sg 1st pl 2nd pl 3rd pl ἔw eō ἔῃs ἔois eeis eois ἔῃ si ᾖsi n ἔoi eei si eisi n eoi ἔwsi n eōsi n ὦ ō ᾖs eis ᾖ ei ὦmen ōmen ἦte ete ὦsi n ōsi n Optative 1st sg 2nd sg 3rd sg 1st pl 2nd pl 3rd pl eἴhn eien eἴhs eies eἴh eie eἶte eite eἶen eien eἴhn eien eἴhs eies eἴh eie eἴhmen eἶmen ei e men eἴhte eἶte ei e te eἴhsan eἶen eiesan eien Imperative 2nd sg 3rd sg 2nd pl 3rd pl ἔsso ἴs8i esso isthi ἔste este ἴs8i isthi ἔstw estō ἔste este ἔstwn ὄntwn estōn ontōn na eisai na ise na eiste na iste Infinitive eἶnai ἔm m en ai einai em m en ai eἶnai einai Participle ἐwn ἐont eōn eont fem ἐoῦsa eousa ὦn ὄnt ōn ont fem oὖsa ousa ontas ontas Dual is not shown in the table The participles are based on the full grade stem ἐs in Homeric according to Smyth Italic languages edit Further information Romance copula Except for Latin the older Italic languages are very scarcely attested but we have in Oscan set they are fiiet they become fufans they have been and fust he will be and in Umbrian sent they are This section will explain Latin and the Romance languages that have evolved from it Esse and the forms beginning with e s are from the root h1es while the forms beginning with f are from the root bʰuH For the forms beginning with er see h er Stare is derived from the root steh2 In Spanish Catalan Galician Portuguese and to a lesser extent Italian there are two parallel paradigms ser esser essere from Latin esse to be on the one hand and estar stare from Latin stare to stand on the other In several modern Romance languages the perfect is a compound tense formed with the past participle as in English but the old Latin perfect survives as a commonly used preterite in Spanish and Portuguese and as a literary past historic in French Italian and Catalan There is a tendency for a past participle derived from stare or more specifically its supine statum to replace that of the main copula derived from esse For example the French participle ete comes from statum Latin Old French French Spanish Italian Portuguese Catalan Romanian Sicilian OccitanInfinitive esse stare estre ester etre ser estar essere stare ser estar ser esser estar a fi fire siri stari estre esserIndicative Present sum esestsumusestissunt stō stasstatstamusstatisstant suis esestsommesestessont este estesesteestonsestezestent suis esestsommesetessont soy eres sosessomossoisson estoy estasestaestamosestaisestan sono seiesiamosietesono sto staistastiamostatestanno sou esesomossoissao estou estasestaestamosestaisestao soc etsessomsouson estic estasestaestemesteuestan sunt esti este suntem sunteţisunt sugnu siestisimusitisu staiu staistastamustatistannu soi sesessemsetzsonPreterite fui fuistifuitfuimusfuistisfuerunt fuere steti stetististetitstetimusstetistissteterunt stetere fui fusfufumesfustesfurent estai estasestaestamesestastesesterent fus fusfutfumesfutesfurent fui fuistefuefuimosfuisteisfueron estuve estuvisteestuvoestuvimosestuvisteisestuvieron fui fostifufummofostefurono stetti stestistettestemmostestestettero fui fostefoifomosfostesforam estive estivesteesteveestivemosestivestesestiveram fui foresfouforemforeuforen estigui estugueresestigueestigueremestiguereuestigueren fusei fui fuseși fușifuse fufuserăm furămfuserăți furățifuseră fură fui fustifufumufustivufuru stesi stastistesistesimustasivustesiru fogueri fogueresfoguetfogueremfogueretzfogueronImperfect eram eraserateramuseratiserant stabam stabasstabatstabamusstabatisstabant ier iersiertiermesseroizierent estoie estoiesestoitestiensestiezestoient etais etaisetaitetionsetiezetaient era eraseraeramoseraiseran estaba estabasestabaestabamosestabaisestaban ero erieraeravamoeravateerano stavo stavistavastavamostavatestavano era eraseraeramosereiseram estava estavasestavaestavamosestaveisestavam era ereseraeremereueren estava estavesestavaestavemestaveuestaven eram eraieraeramerațierau era erieraeramueravueranu stava stavistavastavamustastivustavanu eri eraseraerameratzeranPluperfect fueram fuerasfueratfueramusfueratisfuerant steteram steterassteteratsteteramussteteratissteterant fora forasforaforamosforeisforam estivera estiverasestiveraestiveramosestivereisestiveram fusesem fuseseșifusesefuseserămfuseserățifuseseră Future erō eris ereeriterimuseritiserunt stabō stabisstabitstabimusstabitisstabunt serai serasseraseronsserezseront esterai serai serasseraseronsserezseront sere serasseraseremossereisseran estare estarasestaraestaremosestareisestaran saro saraisarasaremosaretesaranno staro staraistarastaremostaretestaranno serei serasseraseremossereisserao estarei estarasestaraestaremosestareisestarao sere serasseraseremsereuseram estare estarasestaraestaremestareuestaran voi fi vei fiva fivom fiveți fivor fi serai serasseraseremseretzseranFuture Perfect fuerō fuerisfueritfuerimusfueritisfuerint steterō steterissteteritsteterimussteteritissteterint Subjunctive Present sim sissitsimussitissint stem stesstetstemusstetisstent soie soiessoitsoionssoiiezsoient estoise estoisesestoiseestonsestezestoisent sois soissoitsoyonssoyezsoient sea seasseaseamosseaissean este estesesteestemosesteisesten sia siasiasiamosiatesiano stia stiastiastiamostiatestiano seja sejassejasejamossejaissejam esteja estejasestejaestejamosestejaisestejam sigui siga siguis siguessigui sigasiguemsigueusiguin siguen estigui estiga estiguis estuguesestugui estigaestiguemestigueuestiguin estiguen să fiu să fiisă fiesă fimsă fițisă fie fussi fussifussifussimufussivufussiru stassi stassistassistassimustassivustassiru sia siassiasiamsiatzsianImperfect essem forem esses foresesset foretessemus foremusessetis foretisessent forent starem staresstaretstaremusstaretisstarent fusse fussesfustfussonsfussiezfussent esteusse esteussesesteustesteussonsesteussoizesteussent fusse fussesfutfussionsfussiezfussent fuera fuese fueras fuesesfuera fuesefueramos fuesemosfuerais fueseisfueran fuesen estuviera estuviese estuvieras estuviesesestuviera estuvieseestuvieramos estuviesemosestuvierais estuvieseisestuvieran estuviesen fossi fossifossefossimofostefossero stessi stessistessestessimostestestessero fosse fossesfossefossemosfosseisfossem estivesse estivessesestivesseestivessemosestivesseisestivessem fos fossisfosfossim fossemfossiu fosseufossin fossen estigues estiguessisestiguesestiguessim estiguessemestiguessiu estiguesseuestiguessin estiguessen să fi fost să fi fostsă fi fostsă fi fostsă fi fostsă fi fost fussi fussifussifussimufussivufussiru stassi stassistassistassimustassivustassiru foguesse foguessesfoguessefoguessemfoguessetzfoguessonFuture fuere fueresfuerefueremosfuereisfueren estuviere estuvieresestuviereestuvieremosestuviereisestuvieren for foresforformosfordesforem estiver estiveresestiverestivermosestiverdesestiverem Conditional seroie seroiesseroitseriensseriezseroient esteroie esteroiesesteroitesteriiensesteriiezesteroient serais seraisseraitserionsseriezseraient seria seriasseriaseriamosseriaisserian estaria estariasestariaestariamosestariaisestarian sarei sarestisarebbesaremmosarestesarebbero starei starestistarebbestaremmostarestestarebbero seria seriasseriaseriamosserieisseriam estaria estariasestariaestariamosestarieisestariam seria fora series foresseria foraseriem foremserieu foreuserien foren estaria estariesestariaestariemestarieuestarien aș fi ai fiar fiam fiați fiar fi fora foriforaforamuforavuforanu Imperative Present es este sta state soies soiienssoiiez esta estonsestez sois soyonssoyez se seamossed sean esta estemosestad esten sii siate sta state se sede esta estai sigues sigueu sigau estigues estigueu estigau fii fiți si siti stai stati sia siamsiatz Future estōestō estōtesuntō statōstatō statōtestantō Past participle fuisse statum este este ete sido estado stato essuto stato sido estado estat sigut set estat fost statu statu estat estadaPresent Participle esse stans estant estant etant siendo estando essendo stando sendo estando sent essent estant fiind sennu sannu essent Latin Old French French Spanish Italian Portuguese Catalan Romanian Sicilian OccitanGermanic languages edit Main article Germanic verb The proto Germanic verb for to be wesana and its conjugations are derived from the Proto Indo European verbs h2wes stay overnight camp and the optative of h1es 10 Proto Germanic retained the dual but only in the first and second person Proto Germanic reconstructed Gothic Old Norse Icelandic Faroese NorwegianNynorsk NorwegianBokmal Danish Old Swedish Swedish Old English English Old HighGerman German Luxem burgish Old Saxon DutchInfinitive wesana beuna wisan vera vera vera vera vere vaere vara vara wesan beon be wesan sein sinn wesan zijn wezenPresentindicative immi izi isti izu izudiz izum izud sindi biumi biusi biuthi beu biuthiz beum beuth biunthi imisistsijusijutssijumsijuthsind emert est er es erumeruderu ererter erumeruderu erierter eruerueru ererer ererer ererer ererer aem aeraestaer aerumaerinaeru ararar ar aro ar aren ar aro eomeartis sintsintsint beobistbith beothbeothbeoth amartis areareare bim binbistist birum bir e nbirut bir e tsint binbistist sindseidsind si nn bassass si nn siddsi nn biumbistis sindsindsind ben is zijnbent zijt zijnPresentsubjunctive sijǭ sijes sije siw sithiz sim sith sin biwjǭ biwjes biwje biwiw biwithiz biwim biwith biwin sijausijaissijaisijaiwasijaitssijaimasijaithsijaina sjaserse semsedse sesertse seumseudseu veriveriveri veriveriveri vere vaere se i vari sei n vari n vare siesiesie siensien sien beobeobeo beonbeonbeon bebebe bebebe sisis t si sim sinsi n tsin seisei e stsei seienseietseien sief sisis t si sinsinsin zij zij zijnzijzijnPreteriteindicative was wast was wezu wezudiz wezum wezud wezun waswastwaswesuwesutswesumwesuthwesun varvarstvar varumvaridvaru varvarstvar vorumvorudvoru varvartvar voruvoruvoru varvarvar varvarvar varvarvar varvarvar varvastvar varumvarinvaru varvarvar var voro var voren var voro waeswǣrewaes wǣronwǣronwǣron waswastwas werewere were waswariwas warumwarutwarun warwarstwar warenwartwaren warwaarswar ware n waartware n waswariwas warunwarunwarun was was warenwas waart warenPreteritesubjunctive wezį weziz wezi weziw wezidiz wezim wezid wezin wesjauweseiswesiweseiwaweseitsweseimaweseithweseina vaeravaerirvaeri vaerimvaeridvaeri vaerivaerirvaeri vaerumvaerudvaeru vaerivaerivaeri vaerivaerivaeri varvarvar varvarvar vari vari n vorevorevore vorevore en vore wǣrewǣrewǣre wǣrenwǣrenwǣren werewertwere werewerewere wariwariswari warimwaritwarin warewarestware warenwaretwaren wierwierswier wiere n wiertwiere n wariwariswari warinwarinwarin ware ware warenwarewarenImperative wes wesadau wesadiz wisid wesandau wiswisadau wisats wisithwisandau verver veridverid vertuvertu veridverid verver veridverid verver verver vaervaer vaervaer varvar varvar weswes wesathwesath bebe bebe weswes wesitwesit seisei seidseid weswes wesadwesad wees weest Past participle verit verid verid vore vori vaert vaeret varin varit been giwesan gewesen gewiescht gi wesan geweestOld English kept the verbs wesan and beon separate throughout the present stem though it is not clear that the kind of consistent distinction in usage was made that we find for example in Spanish In the preterite however the paradigms fell together Old English has no participle for this verb The plural forms in Modern Swedish indicated in brackets were in common use in formal written language until the mid 20th century but are now no longer in use except in deliberately archaising texts The preterite subjunctive is also increasingly being replaced by the indicative or past participle Dutch like English has abandoned the original second person singular forms replacing them with the second person plural forms However while in English the old forms are still in limited and deliberately archaic use in Dutch they have disappeared entirely and are no longer known or used at all The forms listed in the plural are the historical plural forms the jij and gij forms Dutch formed a new plural pronoun jullie with inflection similar to the 1st and 3rd person plural but it would be redundant to list them here Slavic languages edit Proto Slavic reconstructed Old Church Slavonic Ukrainian Russian Old Polish Polish Czech Slovak Slovenian Serbo Croatian BulgarianPresent j esmĭ j esi j estĭ j esve j esta j este j esmŭ j este sǫtĭ ѥsm jesmĭѥsi jesiѥst jestŭѥsvѣ jesveѥsta jestaѥste jesteѥsm jesmŭѥste jestesѫt sǫtŭ ye s m je s m yesi jesy ye je yest jest ye smo je smo ye ste je ste sut sut esm jesm esi jesi est jest esmo jesmo este jeste sut sut jesmjesjest jesc jesmyjesciesa jestem mjestes sjest jestesmy smyjestescie sciesa jsemjsije jsmejstejsou somsije smestesu semsijesvastastasmosteso jesam sam budem jesi si budesjest je bude jesmo smo budemojeste ste budetejesu su budu sm semsi sie e sme smeste ste sa seImperative bǫdi bǫdi bǫdeve bǫdeta bǫdemŭ bǫdete bǫdǫ bѫdi bǫdibѫdi bǫdibѫdѣvѣ bǫdevebѫdѣta bǫdeta bѫdѣm bǫdemŭbѫdѣte bǫdetebѫdѫ bǫdǫ bud bud budmo budmobudte budte bud bud budte bud te badz badzmybadzcie bywaj badz bywajmy badzmybywajcie badzcie bud budmebudte bud budmebudte bodi bodivabodita bodimobodite budi neka bude budimobudite neka budu bdi bedi bdete bedete Future bǫdǫ bǫdesĭ bǫdetĭ bǫdeve bǫdeta bǫdete bǫdemŭ bǫdete bǫdǫtĭ bѫdѫ bǫdǫbѫdeshi bǫdesibѫdet bǫdetŭbѫdevѣ bǫdevebѫdeta bǫdetabѫdete bǫdetebѫdem bǫdemŭbѫdete bǫdetebѫdѫt bǫdǫtŭ budu budubudesh budesbude bude budemo budemobudete budetebudut budut budu budu budesh budes budet budet budem budem budete budete budut budut bedebedzieszbedzie bedziemybedzieciebeda bedebedzieszbedzie bedziemybedzieciebeda budubudesbude budemebudetebudou budembudesbude budemebudetebudu bom bodembos bodesbo bodebova bodevabosta bodestabosta bodestabomo bodemoboste bodestebodo bojo budembudesbude budemobudetebudu she bda ste bedeshe bdesh ste bedesshe bde ste bede she bdem ste bedemshe bdete ste bedeteshe bdat ste bedetImperfect beaxŭ bease bease beaxove beaseta beasete beaxomŭ beasete beaxǫ bѣah beaxŭbѣashe beasebѣashe beasebѣahovѣ beaxovebѣasheta beasetabѣashete beasetebѣahom beaxomŭbѣashete beasetebѣahѫ beaxǫ biechbieszebiesze biechombieszeciebiecha bijah b j ehbijase b j esebijase b j ese bijasmo b j esmobijaste b j estebijahu b j ehu byah bjahbe she be se be she be se byahme bjahmebyahte bjahtebyaha bjaheAorist byxŭ by stŭ by stŭ byxove bysta byste byxomŭ byste byse bꙑh byxŭbꙑ st by stŭ bꙑ st by stŭ bꙑhovѣ byxovebꙑsta bystabꙑste bystebꙑhom byxomŭbꙑste bystebꙑshѧ byse bychbyby bychombysciebychaConditional copula bymbysby bysmybyscieby bychbysby bychombysteby bi bibi bi bi bi bi bi bi bihbibi bismobistebise bih bihbi bibi bi bihme bihmebihte bihtebiha bihePresent active participle sy m sǫti f sy n sꙑ sy m sѫshi sǫsti f sꙑ sy n sacy m saca f sace n jsouci ssh sest m ssha sesta f ssho sesto n Future active participle bǫdy m bǫdǫti f bǫdy n bѫdꙑ bǫdy m bѫdѫshi bǫdǫsti f bѫdꙑ bǫdy n budushij buduscij m budushaya buduscaja f budushee budusceje n bedacy m bedaca f bedace n bedacy m bedaca f bedace n budouci m budouci f budouci n buduci m buduca f buduce n bodoci m bodoca f bodoce n buduci m buduca f buduce n bdesh bedest m bdesha bedesta f bdesho bedesto n Present gerund buduchi sacbedac bedac jsa jsouc jsouce bdejkiPast active participle byvŭ m byvŭsi f byvŭ n bꙑv byvŭ m bꙑvshi byvŭsi f bꙑv byvŭ n byvshij byvsij m byvshaya byvsaja f byvshee byvseje n bywszy m bywsza f bywsze n bywszy m bywsza f bywsze n byvsi m byvsia f byvsie n bivsi m bivsa f bivse n bivsi m bivsa f bivse n bivsh bivs m bivsha bivsa f bivshe bivse n Past gerund buvshi bywszy bywszy byv byvsi byvse Resultative participle bylŭ m byla f bylo n bꙑl bylŭ m bꙑla byla f bꙑlo bylo n buv buw m bula bula f bulo bulo n byl byl m byla byla f bylo bylo n byl m byla f bylo n byl m byla f bylo n byl m byla f bylo n bol m bola f bolo n bil m bila f bilo n bio m bila f bilo n bil bil m bila bila f bilo bilo n Verbal or deverbal noun bytĭje bꙑtiѥ bytije buttya buttja bytyo bytʹjo bycie bycie byti bytie bitje bice Infinitive byti bꙑti byti buti buty byt byt byc byc byt byt biti biti Supine bit In Russian the present forms are archaic and no longer in common use except for the third person forms which are used in there is are type phrases In Ukrainian the present tense forms of the verb buti have all but disappeared from contemporary language except for the third person form which is used in existential phrases yest jest is archaic and encountered only in poetry All participles have turned into other parts of speech future and past active participles becoming present and past active adverbial participle respectively 11 and resultative pariciple becoming past tense of verbs In Serbo Croatian the forms jesam jesi jeste and so on are used as the basic form of the Present Tense to be i e I am you are etc while the forms budem budes bude etc are used only for the formation of the Future Perfect In Bulgarian forms bda bdesh etc are not used by themselves but only in compound forms future she bda subjunctive da bda In this respect they closely follow the usage and non usage of perfective verbs As such it has its own forms for the aorist bidoh bide bide bidohme bidohte bidoha the imperfect bdeh bdeshe bdeshe bdehme bdehte bdeha and the resultative participle bdel Another verb bivam with fully regular conjugation type III paradigm completes an aspect triple imperfective sm perfective bda secondary imperfective bivam The perfective aorist has lost its original meaning and is now used only to form the compound conditional mood bih chel I would read All participles except the resultative participle bil have lost their function and are now used as regular adjectives with changed meanings ssh same bivsh previous ex bdesh future In Polish the present forms except for jest and sa have turned into suffixes m s smy scie used primarily to construct the past tense and the conditional clitic The modern conjugation comes from attaching these suffixes onto the third person singular form jest Baltic languages edit Lithuanian LatvianInfinitive buti butPresent esu esmi rare esmi obsol bunuesi buni rare yra esti esti obsol esa rare bunaesme obsol esame buname rare este obsol esate bunate rare yra esti rare esa rare buna rare esmu esu vernacular esi ir esam esat irPast simple buvaubuvaibuvobuvomebuvotebuvo bijubijibijabijam bijatbijaPast active participle buves m sg buvusi f sg buve m pl buvusios f pl bijis m sg bijusi f sg bijusi m pl bijusas f pl Future busiubusibusbusimebusitebus busu busi bus busim busiet busit busImperative buk bukimebukite esi busimesiet Quotative esot busotConditional buciaubutumbutubutumemebutumetebutu butuIn Lithuanian the paradigm bunu buni buna etc is not considered archaic or dialectal but rather a special use of the verb buti to be mostly used to describe repeated actions or states or habits Celtic languages edit In the Celtic languages there is a distinction between the so called substantive verb used when the predicate is an adjective phrase or prepositional phrase and the so called copula used when the predicate is a noun The conjugation of the Old Irish and Middle Welsh verbs is as follows Old Irish substantive verb Old Irish copula Middle WelshPresent at to at tai at ta at taam at taid at taat amatisammiadibit wyfwytyw mae taw oesymychynt maen t Preterite ba ba boi bammar baid batar basabasababommarunattestedbatar buumbuostbubuambuawchbuantFuture biabiebieid biabeimmi biambethe bieidbieit biat bebebidbimmiunattestedbit bydafbydybydbydwnbydwchbydantThe forms of the Old Irish present tense of the substantive verb as well as Welsh taw come from the PIE root sta The other forms are from the roots es and bhu Welsh mae originally meant here is cf yma here Irish and Scottish Gaelic edit In modern Gaelic person inflections have almost disappeared but the negative and interrogative are marked by distinctive forms In Irish particularly in the south person inflections are still very common for the ta bhi series note 1 The verb bi edit Scottish Gaelic Irish analytic synthetic Present affirmative tha ta 1 taim 2 tair 3 ta 1pl taimid 2pl tathaoi 3pl taidnegative chan eil nil lt ni fhuil 1 nilim 2 nilir 3 nil 1pl nilimid 2pl nilti 3pl nilidinterrogative a bheil an bhfuil 1 an bhfuilim 2 an bhfuilir 3 an bhfuil 1pl an bhfuilimid 2pl an bhfuilti 3pl an bhfuilidnegative interrogative nach eil nach bhfuil 1 nach bhuilim 2 nach bhfuilir 3 nach bhfuil 1pl nach bhfuilimid 2pl nach bhfuilti 3pl nach bhfuilidPast affirmative bha bhi 1 bhios 2 bhis 3 bhi 1pl bhiomair 2pl bhiobhair 3pl bhiodarnegative cha robh ni raibh ni 1 rabhas 2 rabhais 3 raibh 1pl rabhamair 2pl rabhabhair 3pl rabhadarinterrogative an robh an raibh annegative interrogative nach robh nach raibh nachFuture affirmative bidh or bithidh beidh 1 bead 2 beir 3 beidh 1pl beimid 2pl beidh sibh 3pl beidnegative cha bhi ni bheidh ni 1 bhead 2 bheir 3 bheidh 1pl bheimid 2pl bheidh sibh 3pl bheidinterrogative am bi an mbeidh an 1 mbead 2 mbeir 3 mbeidh 1pl mbeimid 2pl mbeidh sibh 3pl mbeidnegative interrogative nach bi nach mbeidh nach archaic formsGaelic bh eil and Irish bh fuil are from Old Irish fuil originally an imperative meaning see PIE root wel also in Welsh gweled Germanic wlitu appearance and Latin voltus face then coming to mean here is cf French voici lt vois ci and voila lt vois la later becoming a suppletive dependent form of at ta Gaelic robh and Modern Irish raibh are from the perfective particle ro ry in Welsh plus ba lenited after ro The copula 12 edit Scottish Gaelic IrishBefore a consonant Before a vowel Before a consonant Before a vowelPresent affirmativeinterrogativenegativenegative interrogative is isanninach isanninachPast Conditional affirmativeinterrogativenegativenegative interrogative bu baarniornar b arbhniorbhnarbh Modern Welsh edit The present tense in particular shows a split between the North and the South Though the situation is undoubtedly more complicated King 2003 notes the following variations in the present tense as spoken not as written according to the standard orthography Affirmative I am Interrogative Am I Negative I am not Singular Plural Singular Plural Singular PluralNorth First person dw dan ydw ydan dy dw dy danSecond person r wyt dach wyt y dach dwyt dy dachThird person mae maen ydy ydyn dydy dydynSouth First person rw w ŷn ydw ŷn d w ŷnSecond person r wyt ych wyt ych ych Third person mae maen ydy yw ŷn dyw ŷnFor example the spoken first person singular dw i n is a contraction of the formal written yr ydwyf fi yn The Welsh F v is the fricative analogue of the nasal m the PIE suffix consonant for the first person singular Affirmative I am Interrogative Am I Negative I am not Singular Plural Singular Plural Singular PluralPreterite First person bues buon fues fuon fues fuonSecond person buest buoch fuest fuoch fuest fuochThird person buodd buon fuodd fuon fuodd fuonImperfect First person roeddwn roedden oeddwn oedden doeddwn doeddenSecond person roeddet roeddech oeddet oeddech doeddet doeddechThird person roedd roeddyn oedd oeddyn doedd doeddynFuture First person bydda byddwn fydda fyddwn fydda fyddwnSecond person byddi byddwch fyddi fyddwch fyddi fyddwchThird person bydd byddan fydd fyddan fydd fyddanBod also has a conditional for which there are two stems The bas stem is more common in the North and the bydd stem is more common in the South Affirmative Interrogative NegativeSingular Plural Singular Plural Singular Pluralbydd First person byddwn bydden fyddwn fydden fyddwn fydden Second person byddet byddech fyddet fyddech fyddet fyddech Third person byddai bydden fyddai fydden fyddai fydden bas First person baswn basen faswn fasen faswn fasen Second person baset basech faset fasech faset fasech Third person basai basen fasai fasen fasai fasen Hittite edit The Hittite verb to be is derived from the Indo European root h1es Present indicative Preterite indicative Imperative1st sg esmi esun esliteslutasallu2nd sg essi esta es3rd sg eszi esta esdu1st pl asweni eswen 2nd pl esteni esten esten3rd pl asanzi eser asanduArmenian edit The Classical Armenian present tense derives from PIE h es cf sg h esmi h essi h esti 3rd pl h s enti 13 present1st sg em2nd sg es3rd sg e1st pl enkʿ2nd pl ekʿ3rd pl enAlbanian edit The Albanian copula shows two distinct roots The present jam I am is an athematic root stem built from PIE h es The imperfect continues the PIE imperfect of the same root but was rebuilt based on the 3rd person singular and plural The preterite on the other hand comes from the thematic aorist of PIE kʷel turn cf Ancient Greek epleto he turned Armenian eɫew he became Old Irish cloid turns back defeats Analogical or otherwise indirect reflexes are italicized below PIE present PIE PAlb rebuilt imperfect NE Arvanitic imperfect standard Alb PIE PAlb preterite1st sg h esmi jam h es m eham esen jeshe isha kʷl e m klen qeshe OAlb qeva2nd sg h esi je h es eh eseh jeshe ishe kʷl e s kleh qe3rd sg h esti ishte dial esht standard h es t est est je ish ishte kʷl e to kleta kle qe1st pl h s mei jemi h s m e emma e esema e jesheme ishim kʷl e me klema e qeme2nd pl esi 2nd sg ni jeni h s te esta eseta jeshete ishit kʷl e te kleta qete3rd pl h s nti jane h s end esend esend ishine ishin kʷl e nd klend qeneNotes edit Colin Mark has suggested that the Scots Gaelic substantive verb forms can be treated as assertive forms of the copula 14 since the verb is in any case suppletive this is a matter of perspective References edit a b c d Ringe Don 2006 A History of English Volume I From Proto Indo European to Proto Germanic Oxford Oxford University Press ISBN 9780199284139 Retrieved 9 February 2013 Jasanoff Jay 2003 Hittite and the Indo European Verb Oxford University Press p 112 ISBN 0 19 928198 X Calvert Watkins American Heritage Dictionary of Indo European Roots Learner s Hindi English Dictionary ह न Archived from the original on 2021 01 29 Retrieved 2020 11 22 Pokorny J 2007 Proto Indo European Etymological Dictionary Indo European Language Revival Association pp 2906 2914 Kachru Yamina 2006 Hindi Amsterdam Philadelphia pp 73 94 ISBN 90 272 3812 X a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location missing publisher link VAN OLPHEN HERMAN 1975 Aspect Tense and Mood in the Hindi Verb Indo Iranian Journal 16 4 296 doi 10 1163 000000075791615397 ISSN 0019 7246 JSTOR 24651488 S2CID 161530848 McGregor R S 1986 Outline of Hindi Grammar United States Oxford University Press pp 123 124 ISBN 0 19 560797 X Toofan M Zaban ast ya hast Language Is or Exists Ketab e Iran 2000 Ringe Donald A 2017 From Proto Indo European to Proto Germanic Second ed Oxford ISBN 978 0 19 879258 1 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location missing publisher link Diyeprikmetniki Yak mi govorimo Brasicke Lars Gramadach na Gaeilge Irish Grammar Retrieved 9 February 2013 Hrach K Martirosyan Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon s v em Leiden Brill 2009 255 Colin Mark Gaelic Verbs systemised and simplified Savage London amp Edinburgh 1986 p21ff Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Indo European copula amp oldid 1200318994, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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