Reminds me of one thing I loved about Esperanto. It has (almost) all the participles you could ever need: past, present, and future, in both passive and active

Reminds me of one thing I loved about Esperanto. It has (almost) all the participles you could ever need: past, present, and future, in both passive and active voices. So "to love"/"ami" would have # Passive amita - to have been loved amata - to be loved amota - to be going to be loved # Active aminta - to have been loving amanta - loving amonta - to be going to be loving Passive and active are only distinguished by "-t- / -nt-". Anyhow, all of these are effectively adjectives, and can be combined with "esti (to be)" in any tense to express a huge variety of meanings: Li estis amita - He had been loved Ŝi estas amanta - She is loving Mi estos amota - I will be going to be loved Notice that generally the vowels "i/a/o" map to past, present, and future respectively, both for tenses of verbs and participles. You can create 9 combinations from these simple shapes (or 18 of you count passives), and if you draw them on a time-line they will correspond to distinct sub-sets. There also some participles like "amanda/amindo/amenda" but I have simply forgotten what they each mean. I think one of them mean "worthy of being loved", another meaning "should be loved".