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Common terms and phrases
1st conjugation 2nd person 3rd person singular according to etymology according to French added adverbs affix apheresis apocope became changed Circumflex accent cloth Complete Vocabulary conditional present consonant declensions derived from Latin diminutive disappeared Edition English être expresses FALCK LEBAHN feminine according fifteenth century final Fivas fourteenth century French adjectives French ending French Grammars French language French nouns French verbs French words future and conditional Gaul gender German Language given Grammaire des Grammaires infinitive present inflections irregularity Langue d'oïl Latin conjugation Latin form Latin primitive Latin root Latin verbs Lebahn's low Latin masculine according mute mutilated and reduced old French participle and derivatives participle of French past participle popular formation prepositions present indicative present participle present subjunctive preterite indicative pronoun reflexive voice regular conjugation replaced Roman root is suppressed root mutilated Separable Prefixes singular of present student subjunctive Teutonic tive tonic accent lying unaccented vowel vulgar Latin
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