Suppose you are traveling in Spain. What are you doing? What is it like? To talk about things like this in Spanish, you will need to know how to use the verbestar(ess-TAHR, 'to be') with either the present or past participle of a verb. ...
The following project introduces a grammar that generates sentences into the brazilian Portuguese language, by emphasizing phrases that contain verbal periphrases such as ESTAR + GERUND and ESTAR + PAST PARTICIPLE (the verb auxiliary estar partially corresponds to the auxiliary to be in English). In...
) or a past participle (such as muerto ). examples Estoy lavando los platos sucios. I am washing the dirty dishes. Estamos leyendo los periódicos. We are reading the newspapers. Mi bisabuelo está muerto. My great-grandfather is dead. Intriguingly, death in Spanish is seen as an ongoing...
Estar translates as "to be." Speakers use estar in the present participle in conjunction with the main verb to form the present progressive tense. Irregular Present Progressive Verbs in Spanish Present Progressive in Conversation Lesson Summary ...