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completeness or past time, and ,-ota, about to be (going to be), denoting action not yet begun or future time, are added to the root of the verb, as ami, to love amata, being loved, amita, having been loved, amota, going to be loved. La ŝtelisto estas serĉata de* la policanoj, The thief is being searched for by the police. La fenestro estas rompita, The window has been broken. La laboro estas finota morgaŭ, The work is going to be finished to-morrow.

It will be seen that these words ending in -ata, -ita, -ota describe the subject or show the condition or state in which the subject is, therefore they are adjectival; the thief is a searched-for thief, the window was a broken window, the work is a going-to-be-finished work (compare The work will be ready to-morrow). They are called Participles, and being adjectival, take j when the noun to which they belong is plural.

Mi estas tenata ...... I am (being) held.

Li estis tenata ......... He was (being) held.

Ni estos tenataj ..... We shall be (being) held.

Vi estus tenataj ...... You would be (being) held.

Ke ili estu tenataj ... That they may be (being) held.

Estu tenata ........... Be (being) held.

Esti tenata ............ To be (being) held.

Mi estas vidita ......... I am (in the state of) having been seen, or, I have been seen.

Li estis vidita ........ He was (in the state of) having been seen, or, he had been seen.

Ni estos viditaj ...... We shall be (in the state of) having been, or, we shall have been seen.

De is used after these participles to denote the doer of the action.