"Li purigis la tutan spacon."

Translation: He cleaned the whole space.

[Pepbob]

Spaco can be applied to the outer space? Where there are planets and that stuff, I mean

[izopropil]

According to vortaro.net, yes ( http://vortaro.net/#spaco ). Ex: vojaĝanto de la spaco, esplorado de la interplanedaj spacoj, ...

[DavidHarri227108]

If you meant all of space, you would not use the definite article. It would be "He cleaned all of outer space" or something along those lines.

[Quickfitter]

What's wrong with 'area' for 'spacon' in this context?

[traevoli]

Nothing. That's a synonym the team didn't think of. When you come across these, you should report it by clicking on the "Report a Problem" button and selecting "My answer should be accepted."

[Salvesen]

Area worked for me

[Hephaestus1999]

Damn.

[dirosissaias]

why purigis and not puris?

[farl_]

"Puri" specifically means "to be clean" (it is the verbed form of "pura"), so you need to add the affix "-ig-" to make it transitive. In other words, "-ig-" is a suffix used to denote making something the quality of the root which you have attached to it.

[dirosissaias]

thank you for the clarification!

[AtronoxAndy]

"Li puris" would mean "he was clean"
I'm pretty sure, cause that's how it works with intransitive verbs :)

[Rick129940]

It says my translation "He used to clean the whole space." is wrong because it should be "He has cleaned the whole space." If that's correct, what would be the correct way to say in Esperanto "He used to clean..."?

[Thomas811016]

Would "He cleaned the whole place" also be an acceptable solution?