Esperanto: Hearings before the Committee on Education by Richard Bartholdt;A. Christen
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(8) On the possible rivals, past, present, or future, to Esperanto see
closing remarks. (9) To complete what I said on the verb during the hearing I give here the entire paradigm of the verb in Esperanto. Paroli, to speak; parolanta, speaking; parolata, spoken. Present, I speak, etc.: Mi parolas, vi parolas, li parolas, sxi parolas, ni parolas, vi parolas, ili parolas, oni (one) parolas, gxi (it) parolas. There a thus only one ending "as" for the present of every verb and the same for every person. In the past the ending is "is": mi parolis, I spoke, etc. In the future "os" mi parolos, I shall speak, etc. In the conditional "us": mi parolus, I should speak, etc. In the subjunctive "u": ke mi parolu, that I may or might speak, the tense being sufficiently indicated by the antecedent verb. For the imperative we use the subjunctive without conjunction and generally without subject. The participle has a most ingenious flexbility, it having three forms, anta, inta, onta for the active, and ata, ita, ota for the passive; parolanta, speaking now; parolinta, having spoken; parolonta, about to be speaking; parolata, being spoken now; parolita, spoken formerly; parolota, to be spoken later. |
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