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 (sxi, gxi) 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.