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Spanish verb partir: conjugation

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This is the pattern of a regular Spanish -ir verb. French speakers should note that:

• in Spanish, unlike French, partir is completely regular;
• the Spanish verb commonly has the meaning of to cut up, divide as well as to leave (in current French, the verb generally has only the latter meaning¹).

1. Up to probably at least the 1700s, French in fact had both regular and irregular variants of partir. The regular variant carried the meaning of to cut up, divide as in Spanish. Nowadays, only the irregular variant (and its meaning) survive in French.

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