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Why do the present, past and future tenses of verbs end in -an, -in, -on and not -as, -is, -os as in Esperanto?

April 26, 2017future past PRESENT tenses verbs

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Why do the present, past and future tenses of verbs end in -an, -in, -on and not -as, -is, -os as in Esperanto?

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Because: (1) -os is the ending of a plural noun. (2) The present, past and future tenses of active participles end in -ant-, -int-, -ont-. Therefore, it is better to use -an, -in, -on to correspond with them.