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dim dock
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Supposedly it's to avoid hiatus between two vowels.
But in fact, in Latin, verbs in the third person singular of the present tense end in T so when it evolved into Modern French, that T got phased out both in spelling and in pronunciation but people kept saying it in inversions out of habit so it remained there. That's why it's an T and not any other letter.

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By the way, it's the same in simple future.

Aura-t-il

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(For the record, it's respectively habet and habebit in Latin.)

hardy hollow
# dim dock (For the record, it's respectively habet and habebit in Latin.)

A correction on this last bit: Latin's future tense is not the same as the Romance future tense. The Romance languages (except Romanian) created a new future tense by putting the verb habēre after the infinitive. This is why the future tense is taught as the infinitive plus the present endings of avoir – that literally is the pattern.
(ego) amãre habeo => j'aimerai (aimer + ai)
(tu) amãre habes => tu aimeras (aimer + as)
(ille) amãre habet => il aimera (aimer + a)
(nos) amãre habēmus => nous aimerons (aimer + [av]ons)
(vos) amãre habētis => vous aimerez (aimer + [av]ez)
(illi) amãre habent => ils aimeront (aimer + ont)

dim dock
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Right, since the new simple future tense forms use the present form of habere, the T is still there.

hexed rover
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@dim dock et @hardy hollow merci. Y a-t-il de quelque chose comme ça en espagnol que vous savez?

hardy hollow
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Rien m’arrive en tête

hexed rover
hardy hollow
hexed rover
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Lol ok

hardy hollow
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Forget about that

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I messed up lol

hexed rover
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On what?

hardy hollow
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On arriver meaning ‘to happen’ being impersonal