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To form the gerund of an -ar verb, replace the -ar of the infinitive with -ando; e.g. jugar, hablar, caminar → jugando, hablando, caminando. For -er or -ir verbs, replace the -er or -ir ending with -iendo; e.g. comer, escribir, dormir → comiendo, escribiendo, durmiendo (note that dormir undergoes the stem vowel change that is typical of -ir ...
The progressive aspects (also called "continuous tenses") are formed by using the appropriate tense of estar + present participle (gerundio), and the perfect constructions are formed by using the appropriate tense of haber + past participle (participio). When the past participle is used in this way, it invariably ends with -o.
The main difference was that imperfective verbs allowed the use of special present-tense (primary) endings, while perfective verbs only allowed the default tenseless (secondary) endings. The present tense used the primary eventive endings, and was used specifically to refer to present events, although it could also refer to future events.
There were originally five subgroups depending on the vowel of the present tense. Class 7a (with ee or ei in the present) has disappeared in Dutch, so only four subgroups remain. Class 7b has oo in the present tense: lopen, liep, gelopen ("to walk, to run"). Class 7c has a in the present tense: vallen, viel, gevallen ("to fall").
Verbs have a first infinitive ending in two consonants + a: mennä = 'to go'. Another way of looking at the verbs is that they have verb stems ending in a consonant to which a vowel must be added (e for the present tense or i for the past tense) before the personal ending. The final consonant of the stem is generally emphasised by length in the ...
Aries, sometimes you must learn to go with the flow.The retrogrades had you feeling like a ball of stress; now, you can move at your speed. Rather than plotting your actions, let the universe show ...
A number of multi-word constructions exist to express the combinations of present tense with the basic form of the present tense is called the simple present; there are also constructions known as the present progressive (or present continuous) (e.g. am writing), the present perfect (e.g. have written), and the present perfect progressive (e.g ...
Part of the conjugation of the Spanish verb correr, "to run", the lexeme is "corr-". Red represents the speaker, purple the addressee (or speaker/hearer) and teal a third person. One person represents the singular number and two, the plural number. Dawn represents the past (specifically the preterite), noon the present and night the future.