| amáva | vezía | fazía | partía |
| amávas | vezías | fazías | partías |
| amáva | vezía | fazía | partía |
| amavám | veziám | faziám | partiám |
| amavátz | veziátz | faziátz | partiátz |
| amávan | vezían | fazían | partían |
1. In poetry ía is sometimes counted as one syllable: avi͡an, devi͡an.
2. For some subsequent developments of western dialects, see Meyer-Lübke, Gram., II, p. 326.
3. For the personal endings, see §§ [164-169].
4. Esser has: ęra, ęras, ęra, erám, erátz erás, ęran ęron ęro.
PRETERIT, OLD CONDITIONAL, AND IMPERFECT SUBJUNCTIVE.
171. These parts are all formed from the same stem, that of the Latin perfect: cf. § [141], (2). Ex.: cantęi, cantęra, cantęs; vendęi, vendęra, vendęs; partí, partíra, partís; vi, vira, vis; dẹc, dẹgra, deguẹs.
Preterit.
172. Preterits which stress the ending throughout are called weak; those which do not stress the ending throughout are called strong: partí, partíst, partí, partím, partítz, partíron is weak; saup, saubíst, saup, saubém, saubétz, sáubron is strong. Verbs of the first and fourth conjugations regularly have weak preterits (amęi, finí). Verbs of the second and third, with very few exceptions, originally had strong preterits (placuī ＞ plac, fēcī ＞ fis): many of them, however, developed weak preterits either in Vulgar Latin or in Provençal (irasquęi, nasquęi, tessęi tesquęi, visquęi); some assumed a weak form in -í in the 1st pers. sg. (dis dissí, pris prenguí, remas remanguí, trais traguí: cf. §§ [173], [177]); quęrre, on the other hand, substituted a strong preterit (quis, etc.) for a weak one.
173. (1) Final -ī, in the first pers. sg., doubtless remained through the earlier stages of Provençal (habuī ＞ águi, dīxī ＞ díssi): cf. § [51], (2). Before it fell, it changed an accented ẹ in the preceding syllable to i (vēnī ✱vēnuī ＞ ✱vẹngui vinc): cf. § [27]; occasionally, however, the ẹ was kept, through the analogy of the other persons (pris prẹs). Sometimes, instead of falling, the -i took the accent (following the analogy of the fourth conjugation) and remained: águi ＞ ac or aguí, díssi ＞ dis or dissí (cf. § [177]).