(you) speak

We've seen from the "am doing" and "are doing" entries that the "I" and "you" forms of verbs are different (usually). We already know the "I" forms of "speak." Here are the "you" forms.

Spanish (Usted) habla (oo-stayth ah-blah)

Italian (Lei) parla (lay par-lah)

French vous parlez (voo par-lay - yes, "ez" is pronounced "ay")

I've put the endings in italics.

For the curious... now you can use lots of verbs in the Romance languages. All you need to know is the "to" or infinitive form (like "to do" or "to speak"). Here's how this works: 80% of verbs in the Romance languages work like "to speak." In Latin, they were the "-are" verbs. In the Romance languages... look at the table.

	Spanish	Italian	French
if the dictionary form ends with	-ar	-are	-er
(example)	hablar	parlare	parler
the "I" form ends	-o	-o	-e
(example)	hablo	parlo	parle
the "you" form ends	-a	-a	-ez
(example)	habla	parla	parlez