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Originally Posted by bahamas
¡Hola socios! Soy Leslie. (Yo) Soy bahameño. (Yo) Tengo una pasión para el español.
Mi país limita con dos países de habla hispana (Cuba y República Dominicana). (Yo) estoy haciendo genial en español en mi academia pero (yo) no sé cómo cambiar los verbos al "tiempo ahora" ( in the now tense )
for example
I am going
she is going
i am eating
she is eating
i am planting
she is planting
¿Pueden enseñarme cómo cambiar los verbos? (please tell educate me about where I went wrong in this post too.)
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Welcome to the forums!
I corrected several things above, but most of the corrections were for missing
tildes (accent marks). When you're typing, look just above the text input box for an 'Accents' drop-down menu. It contains all the special characters you'll need to type in Spanish.
Perhaps, by "now tense," you mean the present progressive/present continuous verb form. Technically, it isn't a tense.
The present continuous is a two-part verb form. The first part is a conjugated form of the verb
estar, in the present indicative tense. (The 1st person conjugation is
estoy.) The first part is immediately followed by a present participle. This is known as
el gerundio in Spanish. To form the present participle, you just change the ending. (There are irregular forms, which you'll learn later.) For verbs ending in
-ar, like
hablar, the ending becomes
-ando (
hablar -
hablando). For
-er and
-ir verbs, the ending becomes
-iendo (
comer - comiendo | vivir - viviendo).
So, putting both parts together, the present continuous form of
(yo) como (I eat, I do eat, I'm eating) is
estoy comiendo. (Notice I dropped the subject pronoun
yo. It isn't necessary.)