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am

Pronunciation: /am/

“am” is a Romanian word. Its 3 meanings in English:

verb

  1. am (modal auxiliary, first-person singular form of avea, used with past participles to form perfect compus tenses)
  2. am (modal auxiliary, first-person plural form of avea, used with past participles to form perfect compus tenses)
  3. am (modal auxiliary, first-person plural form of avea, used with infinitives to form conditional tenses)

Etymology

Inflected form of avea. Probably an analogical construction based on the old first-person plural or perhaps influenced by similar forms in other languages. Compare Aromanian am(u); cf. also Albanian kam (“I have”).

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