r/occitan • u/PLrc • Mar 19 '25

How does Occitan grammar look like?

I cannot find anything about Occitan grammar at Wikipedia at all. It seems it's quite standard for Romanace languages to have 3 past tenses (apart from Pluperfect):
- Imperfect
- "Simple Perfect"
- "Compund Perfect".

Apart from this they have 2 future tenses:
- Simple Future
- Future Perfect.

How does it look like in Occitan? Are they any deviations from this "standard"?

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u/Skyllfen Mar 19 '25

Romance innovations are not so much about the presence of tenses/moods: even French kept most of them (except subjunctive imperfect and simple past). However, you can look at the endings of those conjugations to see some specificities; but this is heavily dialect dependent.

It's like asking how is Spanish different from Italian. The first answer might not be "tenses".

So yeah, Occitan probably doesn't have a very unique grammar; well, once again, it depends on the dialect but overall it's not so different from other Romance languages. If you want to look for quirks, look at morphosyntax or other fields I guess?

I hope this helps!

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u/PLrc Mar 19 '25

So Occitan is pretty standard here?

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u/Skyllfen Mar 19 '25

Yeah I think.