Adventures in Homonyms!

My Romanian-American wife and I are going to a New Year's Party at a Romanian Orthodox Church on Thursday evening. We spend at least a month in Romania every Summer (we're school teachers with the time off). I use this New Year's Party as an excuse to charge up my reasonably competent Romanian, invariably turned rusty from disuse in the Fall months.

Anyway, while studying Romanian for hours on end (don't pity me, I love it), and while reading dialogues featuring some subjunctive forms, I had the sudden realization that Spanish has a delightful series of homonyms with the indicative and subjunctive paradigms of the verbs creer, 'to believe', and crear, 'to create'.

Take a look at the forms:


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	creer, ‘to believe’	crear, ‘to create’
	Present Indicative	Present Subjunctive
I	creo	cree
you	crees	crees
he/she	cree	cree
we	creemos	creemos
you (pl)	creéis	creéis
they	creen	creen
	Present Subjunctive	Present Indicative
I	crea	creo
you	creas	creas
he/she	crea	crea
we	creamos	creamos
you (pl)	creáis	creáis
they	crean	crean

 
The only forms that are not identical are the 1st person singular (yo/I) forms that I boldfaced.

This means the following sentence is possible to utter:

No creemos que creemos algo, "We don't believe that we create something."

Anyway, it just struck me as interesting and I just had to share.

Alright, back to the Romanian study...