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Romance language, official in 29 states, including France, Belgium and Côte d'Ivoire. For non-linguistic questions about the French language, visit our sister site French Language Stack Exchange.

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Are there ways to infer the ending of the French past participle?

The traditional categorization of conjugations in French is pretty messy, since it's modelled on the Latin paradigm but with many exceptions. … For example, all the -indre verbs in French are reflexes of or modelled on Latin Vngere (joindre < iungere), whereas prendre/rendre were from prehendere/*rendere respectively. …
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Plural "you" in different language families connoting respect

This phenomenon is found throughout Indo-European languages. You can read about it at the Wikipedia article on T-V distinction. One potential explanation for this plural-polite association says that …
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