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The "hot news perfect" is the past tense for very recent events, languages tend not to have a synthetic form for it, but they do have standard constructions, in English: I have just arrived or in Hiberno-English: I'm after arriving tracking the Irish Táim tar eis teacht. French is similar to English: Je viens d'arriver.

What is the equivalent Esperanto?

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    I've never heard this term before. I googled it just now and saw a couple of hits talking about the '"hot news" use of the present perfect.'
    – Chris McDowell
    Aug 30, 2016 at 13:08
  • I know the term from [stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/… which discusses the Hiberno-English construction, but it isn't only found there. It is true that the present perfect is often used for the recent past in English, but certainly isn't for Esperanto.
    – conor
    Aug 30, 2016 at 13:11
  • Fixed link: stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/… @conor
    – TRiG
    Dec 6, 2016 at 14:27

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In Esperanto there is the word "ĵus".

I have just arrived. = Mi ĵus alvenis.

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