until the 19th century in some poetic composition for metric needs.

Romanian

Romanian uses a periphrastic construction for the conditional, e.g. 1sg as, 2sg ai, 3sg/pl ar, 1pl am, 2pl ati + cânta 'sing'. The modal clitic mixes forms of Latin habere:
* ai, am, and ati (if not auxiliary clitics) are presumably from the Latin imperfect *eas, eamus, eatis < habebas, habebamus, habebatis;
* ar (< older ara,

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