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Spanish Progressive: Continuing Actions and Duration
Learn to use Spanish gerunds with estar, seguir, and llevar to talk about ongoing actions and their duration.
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TutorialSpanish
Spanish Progressive: Continuing Actions and Duration
Learn to use Spanish gerunds with estar, seguir, and llevar to talk about ongoing actions and their duration.
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To talk about actions in progress, Spanish uses a form called the 'gerundio', which is like the '-ing' form in English. For regular verbs ending in A R, you drop the ending and add 'ando'. For example, 'hablar' becomes 'hablando'.
Quiz#2
How do you say 'working' in Spanish?
trabajando
Lesson#3
For regular verbs ending in E R or I R, you drop the ending and add 'iendo'. So, 'comer' becomes 'comiendo', and 'vivir' becomes 'viviendo'.
Quiz#4
How do you say 'learning' in Spanish?
aprendiendo
Quiz#5
How do you say 'writing' in Spanish?
escribiendo
Lesson#6
Some verbs have irregular gerunds. A few common ones to know are 'leer', which becomes 'leyendo', 'decir', which becomes 'diciendo', and 'dormir', which becomes 'durmiendo'. Notice the vowel change in the stem.
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