Aristotle explains the term in this sense in the Rhetoric (1 2) [Greek: hae peri ta aethae pragmateia aen dikaion esti prosagoreuen politikaen].
Greek: He gar epangelia tou loutrou ouk alle tis esti kat' autous, he to eisagagein eis ten amaranton hedonen ton louomenon kat' autous zont hydati kai chriomenon alalo chrismati.
Et kai en to aimati; kai to Spiritus est qui testificatur pneuma esti to martyroun, quoniam Christus hoti to pneuma est veritas.
Iesum Christum pan pneuma ho me homologeiton ex Deo non est; et his Iesoun Christon est Antichristus quod en sarki elelythota, ek audistis quoniam venit tou Theou ouk esti; kai et nunc iam in mundo touto esti to tou est.
Greek: Kai ara eoti sigônta legein; ditton gar esti to sigonta legein, to te ton legonta sigan, kai to ta legomena.
Rinaldo of Esti being robbed, arrived at Castel Guglielmo, and was succoured of a wydowe: and restored to his losses, retourning saulfe and sounde home to his owne house.
Rinaldo of Esti being robbed, arriued at Castel Guglielmo, and was succoured of a wydowe: and restored to his losses, retourning saulfe and sounde home to his owne house.
Li devus ne forgesi (or, esti forgesinta) = He ought not to have forgotten.
The compound tenses are formed by the auxiliary verb esti = to be, and one of the participles of the verb which must agree in number with its subject.
Mi hontas esti laŭdata de li = I am ashamed to be praised by him.
Here also Jokai supported himself by journalism, and on February 22 started the Esti Lapok as the organ of the Constitutional Liberals as opposed to the Marczius Tizenoetoedike, the organ of the extreme Radicals.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "esti" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.