est.
east
Meaning & usage
east
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Old French, from Old English ēast.
east
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Old French, from Old English ēast.
third-person singular present indicative of être
C'est une belle journée aujourd’hui qui fait un bien fou !
Il me semble bien que je n'ai aucune obligation à les accompagner, n'est-ce pas?
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle French est, from Old French est, from Latin est, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti. Next to Jésus-Christ, it is the only word in which silent internal s remains in modern French spelling. The expected form êt existed, but did not establish itself, in contrast to être and êtes. Possible reasons are the sheer frequency of est, its exact agreement with the Latin form, and the fact that it was usually unstressed and thus shortened.
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