"to lose" in seven languages
Meaningto lose
Spanish
perder
/peɾˈdeɾ/
inherited
French
perdre
/pɛʁdʁ/
inherited
Italian
perdere
/ˈpɛrdere/
inherited
Portuguese
perder
/pehˈdeh/
inherited
Romanian
pierde
/ˈpjerde/
inherited
Catalan
perdre
/ˈpɛrdɾə/
inherited
English
lose
/luz/
native English · Old English losian
English → Italianto loseperdereNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: perdition.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
PERDERE‘to destroy, to waste, to lose’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
One verb, almost unchanged: Spanish moved the stress to the ending, French dropped the final vowel. All three lose keys, games and trains with it.
English relatives: perdition
Sound laws at work
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In a sentence
- esHe perdido las llaves.
- frJ'ai perdu mes clés.
- itHo perso le chiavi.
- ptPerdi minhas chaves.
- roMi-am pierdut cheile.
- caHe perdut les claus.
- enI lost my keys.
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