LESSON XXXVIII.
THE DISTRIBUTIVE ADJECTIVE.
177. The distributive adjective related to the distributive pronoun ĉiu, giving a comprehensive idea of the quality of some person or thing, is ĉia, every kind of, every sort of:
Oni vendas ĉiajn fruktojn tie, they sell every sort of fruit there.
Estas ĉiaj personoj en la mondo, there are all sorts of persons in the world.
THE IMPERFECT PASSIVE TENSE.
178. The compound tense formed by combining the present passive participle with the past tense of the auxiliary verb esti expresses an act or condition as being undergone by the subject of the verb at some time in the past. It is called the imperfect passive tense. The conjugation of vidi in this tense is as follows:
mi estis vidata, I was (being) seen.
vi estis vidata, you were (being) seen.
li (ŝi, ĝi) estis vidata, he (she, it) was (being) seen.
ni estis vidataj, we were (being) seen.
vi estis vidataj, you were (being) seen.
ili estis vidataj, they were (being) seen.
COMPOUND TENSES OF IMPERSONAL VERBS.
179. When impersonal verbs, or other verbs used impersonally, are in compound tenses, the participial element is given the ending -e, like other modifiers of impersonally used verbs (141):
Estis pluvante antaŭ unu minuto, it was raining a minute ago.
Estis multe neĝinte, it had snowed a great deal.
Estis vidate ke ĉiu ploras, it was seen that every one wept.