A nagging question

[Mom of 5]

I've often heard people say agua hervida for boiling water. Is this correct? or should it be agua hirviendo? Thanks guys.

-Mom

[atnbueno]

It's frequent that a English gerund becomes a Spanish participle, but in this case I agree with you as "agua hervida" can be cold and still be "agua hervida".

[tavin]

you guys are pros at this. It's been so long since I've used my spanish in a written form that I've forgotten alot of it. Thank you for trying to help everybody else that is in my position of wanting to relearn.