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Does savoir use a circumflex on the past participle su?
It is not a typo. Before being written su, this past participle was written as sû or sü to remind the older spelling seu (along with sçu, sceu and other).
Jean Le Jeune, Le missionnaire de l'oratoire,...
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Does savoir use a circumflex on the past participle su?
It depends on how old is the text, but it's more of a typography than anything else. Nowadays, circumflex accents tend to disappear.
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