1. Who is the woman sitting on the sofa in the parlor? 2. I can not easily see her, but I hear her voice. 3. I wonder whose voice that is. 4. However, I think that it is the voice of a friend of Mother's. 5. Now I can see her, although she does not see me. 6. I am well acquainted with her. 7. She is a friend of our whole family, and is visiting a neighbor of ours (najbaron nian) in this city. 8. My sister is sitting on the sofa in another room, and learning her lessons. 9. Soon she will go to school. 10. Whose book is she reading? 11. That thick book is mine, but the other books on the table near her are hers. 12. She prefers to sit in the sewing-room (111) to read or write (98), because the curtains in front of the windows are not too thick, and so (78) that room is very light and pleasant. 13. She also likes to look at the falling snow, and the men and women walking on the muddy streets. 14. On account of the cold weather, people are wearing thick clothes. 15. The men and boys are keeping their hands in their pockets while they walk. 16. The girls walking toward the school are friends of my sister's. 17. In that school they learn to cook. Soon they will be able to bake bread, and even to cook a whole meal. 18. I think such a custom is very good. 19. Many persons can not cook well enough (sufiĉe bone).
LESSON XXV.
THE INTERROGATIVE ADJECTIVE.
112. The interrogative adjective related to the interrogative pronoun kiu, is kia, what kind of, what sort of:
Kiajn vestojn li portis? What sort of clothes did he wear?
Kian panon vi preferas? What kind of bread do you prefer?
Mi miras kia persono li estas, I wonder what sort of a person he is.
Kia vetero estas? What sort of weather is it?
Kia plezuro! What a pleasure!
THE IMPERFECT TENSE.
113. The compound tense formed by using the present active participle with the past tense of esti represents an act or condition as in progress in past time, but not perfected, and is called the imperfect tense. The conjugation of vidi in this tense is as follows:
mi estis vidanta, I was seeing.
vi estis vidanta, you were seeing.
li (ŝi, ĝi) estis vidanta, he (she, it) was seeing.
ni estis vidantaj, we were seeing.
vi estis vidantaj, you were seeing.
ili estis vidantaj, they were seeing.
THE PROGRESSIVE FUTURE TENSE.
114. The compound tense formed by using the present active participle with the future tense of esti represents an act or condition as in progress—or a condition as existing continuously—at a future time, and is called the progressive future tense. The conjugation of vidi in this tense is as follows: