 At the extreme French merged three Latin verbs with, for example, the present tense deriving from "vadere" and another verb "ambulare" (or something like it) and the future tense deriving from "ire".Similarly the Romance distinction between the Romance verbs for "to be", ' and ', was lost in French as these merged into the verb '.In Italian, the verb ' inherited both Romance meanings of "being essentially" and "being temporarily of the quality of", while "" specialized into a verb denoting location or dwelling, or state of health.