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| Dec 22, 2021 at 13:00 | comment | added | Juha Metsäkallas | I agree. You can think that participles are basically adjectives (which you can turn to adverbs if needed). It is natural to associate time with these, thus we have ridanta, ridinta, ridonta etc. Infinitives behave more like nouns, so the idea of time does not sit, rather different prepositions do. But then why not use nouns in the first place? So instead of sen ridi say sen rido. Perhaps this was behind Zamenhof's reasoning. | |
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