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Sentempaj verboj Esperante
Bonvolu pardoni min, ĉar ĉi tiu demando estas iom pedanta.
Mi scivolas kiel priskribi agojn aŭ okazaĵojn, kiuj ne havas definitan aŭ
sciitan tempon.
Iuj lingvoj havas verban aspekton sen specifa senco ...
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Is it appropriate to use participles for passive voice in Esperanto?
AS mainly shows the present tense of the action, while ANT and AT show the duration or repetition of the action. IS shows that the action occured before the present, while INT and IT show that the ...
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Expressing "<verb>-ingly", where "<verb>" happens to be transitive
Suppose I have this intentionally strange-sounding (and perhaps ungrammatical) sentence.
Finante faru ĝin!
Maybe even this one.
Faru ĝin! Sed finante!
That is to say, "Do it, but finishingly ...
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Present continuous without a pronoun?
I was looking at a post which said:
"organo konsistanta el karnaj fibroj kaj servanta por movi la
diversajn partojn de la korpo"
I am a bit confused on why konsistanta was used instead of ...
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Infinitive form of compound tenses?
Compound tenses are formed by combining the auxiliary verb "esti" with a participle (e.g. "mi estis leganta" -> "mi legantis"). Is there ever such a thing as an infinitive form of a compound (e.g. "...
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Compound Tenses
Researching the in-depth usages of Esperanto verbs, I came across this Wikipedia entry.
In short, the entry claims that for compound tenses such as "mi estas kuranta" (present tense progressive, "I ...
