 What's up guys, Evil D here and tonight I'm going to cover Activate Patatitsi Point and I said that in Esperanto because finally enough I never say it in English and I'd probably mispronounce it and look like an idiot. So I'm going to cover only the active form because in all honesty if I wanted to cover also the passive form it would just be a really long video so I'll probably cover that in another video. So what is this anyway? Now we all have seen the very common sentence Mi vidas katon okay and that means I see a cat but it could also mean I am seeing a cat. It could be either or but in English you have to pick all the time you have to be very concise about which one you use I see a cat I am seeing a cat that's just the way English is. Esperanto isn't like that you pretty much always just use the active verb Mi vidas katon however that does not mean that you can't be precise if you want to so I'm going to show you now how you do that and you use the forms anta inter anta in active okay and you're probably looking at that going what's that mean well this is active present tense this is active past tense and this is active future tense okay that's probably the best way to explain it sorry if I don't get the technical words right for those linguists who are watching this. So how does this help? Well as I said you could say Mi vidas and that means I see a cat I am seeing a cat but if you wanted to specify I am seeing a cat you'd say Mi estas vidanta katon katon still is in accusative case because you're using this as a compound verb form so I estas is as you know am is or you should know vidanta means seeing katon as you know is a cat so Mi estas vidanta katon means I am seeing a cat now you can also then change this to past tense for this one so that means now which would be similar to this Mi estas vidinta katon means I had seen a cat so this is where English is weird because normally you'd say you change the verb form itself so I saw a cat now I had seen a cat so in Esperanto Mi estas vidinta katon means I had seen a cat now again you can change it you can go onto here so that's like future tense there active obviously Mi estas vidanta katon means I am going to see a cat or I am about to see a cat okay now so you've seen so far the three different forms Mi estas vidanta katon Mi estas vidinta so Mi estas vidanta katon I am seeing a cat Mi estas vidinta katon I had seen a cat Mi estas vidanta katon I am about to see a cat I am going to see a cat that's great but guess what you can also change these now around so let's put all these past tense okay so Mi estas vidanta katon means I was seeing a cat Mi estas vidinta katon means I had seen a cat or it's it's hard to translate that into English okay so I had seen a cat Mi estas vidanta katon means I was about to see a cat or I was going to see a cat okay can you see the correlation here let's move this into future tense now so Mi estas vidanta katon means I will be seeing a cat Mi estas vidinta katon means I will have seen a cat Mi estas vidanta katon means I will be about to see a cat it gets really complex in English but what I'm just going to say right now is you'll see these forms under and into quite often in written form sometimes in spoken form I will use it but you will barely ever see onto I'm guessing that's just because in most people's native languages that form just doesn't exist so they just don't use it okay so we've covered that but another way you will see it is actually used as an adjective so you'll see for instance kuranta hundo and that means a running dog now this can be a bit hard for some people to translate within their heads so the best way I say is look at it like this hundo q kuras a dog who runs is a running dog okay kuranta hundo so again we can say kurinta hundo is a hundo q kuris okay so what would that be it would be a dog that's having run okay or having ran or English messes with my head when I'm talking like this but it's a dog that ran in the past but is no longer running okay you could be pointing at the dog that's sitting there going and you could say that was a kurinta hundo it's a dog that had been running but no longer or you could even say kuranta hundo hundo q kuris so it's a dog that's about to run that's going to run maybe it's just spotted a car and it's about to take off and you could say to your mate that there is a kuranta hundo it's a dog that's about to take off okay so that's the where you're the most common forms of the active however you will also see it used as a adverb okay so for instance you might see um let me just think of a good form here trinkante akvon mi iras blah blah blah so that means while drinking water I go to okay so then you could say trinkinte akvon mi iras that means um having drunk water I go to um again you could say trinkonte akvon mi iras which means um going to drink water I go so how could you think of that one so um let's just go back trinkinte akvon uh pardon me uh trinkinte akvon mi iras alabutiko so having drunk some water I go to the shop okay trinkante akvon mi iras alabutiko so that means that I'm drinking water while going to the shop um trinkonte akvon mi iras alabutiko going to drink water I go to the shop so maybe I go to the shop to get water maybe I'm just outside you know so um that could be a way of using it now those are the most common forms but you can also see that in negative so for instance uh let's just go here ne trinkinte akvon mi iras so um not having so I haven't drunk water um while going to the shop no that's probably the worst way to say it um not having drunk water I go um iras alabutiko I go to the shop so um without drinking water I go to the shop type of thing that would be the best way to translate it into English so ne inter would be without having blah blah okay um ne trinkante akvon mi iras alabutiko you just saying while not drinking water you go to the shop ne trinkonte akvon mi iras alabutiko um while not going to drink water I go to the shop um so you're going to the shop for another reason other than drinking water or without drink uh without going to drink water it's really complex in English but nesprano once you get it into your head it makes sense okay so those that are quite the most common forms you will actually see in esprano however there is two others that are quite common within spoken espranto and written esprano which you should learn just by themselves so you will see davintus and povintus okay and I use these forms all the time and a lot of espranas use these forms davintus best translates as should have so you could say um me davintus ideala festa I should have went to the the party type of thing um povintus means could have okay um me povintus fadition said me that see this okay me nevola fadition so I could have done that but I decided not to do it um so those are two forms you should learn just by themselves um practice them um just as I actually when I learned while I was learning these I practice these as individual forms themselves almost as individual words just meaning these phrases here because they're very common in espranto I'm guessing that's because of the influence of um English and other languages upon espranto so that's it I hope this has helped you guys clear 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