Spanish Tenses: The Present Progressive

19 Sep, 2009 in Uncategorized by Julio Foppoli

THE PRESENT PROGRESSIVE – EL PRESENTE PROGRESIVO

The situations in which you use this tense are the same both in English as in Spanish. Consequently, we are going to see some examples and we are not going to concentrate on when or when not to use this tense as you will do it intuitively if you native language is English.

I am working.	Estoy trabajando. / Trabajo
They are studying now.	Ellos están estudiando ahora.
We are selling a novel	Estamos vendiendo una novela.
He is eating a lot.	Él está comiendo mucho.
She is leaving in two days.	Está partiendo en dos días *or..*
	parte en dos días.

How to form EL PRESENTE PROGRESIVO in 3 easy steps

1 Take the verb in the infinitive form…				trabajar	comer	partir

2 Drop the infinitive ending…				trabaj-	com-	part-

3 Add the verb ESTAR (to be) and present progressive ending…
Yo	estoy	I am		trabajando	comiendo	partiendo
Tú	estás	You are (informal)		trabajando	comiendo	partiendo
Usted Él – Ella	está	You are (formal) s-he is		trabajando	comiendo	partiendo
Nosotros	estamos	We are		trabajando	comiendo	partiendo
Vosotros	estáis	You all are		trabajando	comiendo	partiendo
Ustedes	están	You all are		trabajando	comiendo	partiendo
Ellos	están	They are		trabajando	comiendo	partiendo


Now it is your turn!
Conjugate the verbs in all the persons.

		(caminar)
Yo
Tú			Tip!
Usted Él – Ella			In verbs ending in -AR, the -ing form in English corresponds to the ending-ando in Spanish.
Nosotros
Vosotros
Ustedes
Ellos


		(beber)
Yo
Tú			Tip!
Usted Él – Ella			In verbs ending in -ER or -IR, the -ing form in English corresponds to the ending -iendo in Spanish.
Nosotros
Vosotros
Ustedes
Ellos


		(vivir)
Yo
Tú
Usted Él – Ella
Nosotros
Vosotros
Ustedes
Ellos

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Published on 19 Sep, 2009 in Uncategorized by Julio Foppoli

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