A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed
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En kies domo vi logxas? In whose house do you reside?
Kies amikojn vi vizitis? Whose friends did you visit? THE PRESENT ACTIVE PARTICIPLE. 108. A participle is a "verbal adjective", as in "a "crying" child." It agrees like other adjectives with the word modified (19, 24). The participle from a transitive verb (22) may take a direct object, and a participle expressing motion may be followed by an accusative indicating direction of motion (46). The present active participle, expressing what the word modified "is doing", ends in "-anta," as "vidanta", seeing, "iranta", going: La ploranta infano volas dormi. The crying child wishes to sleep. Mi vidas la falantajn foliojn, I see the falling leaves. Kiu estas la virino acxetanta ovojn? Who is the woman buying eggs? Mi parolis al la viroj irantaj vilagxon. I talked to the men (who were) going toward the village. COMPOUND TENSES. 109. A participle may be used predicatively with a form of "esti", as "Mi estas demandanta", I am asking, "La viro estas acxetanta", the man is buying. Such combinations are called "compound tenses", in contrast to the "simple" or "aoristic" tenses. [Footnote: An aoristic tense consists of but one word (ending in "-as", "-os", etc.) and expresses an act or state as a whole, without |
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