"Ing" Words

[bleitzow]

I'm wondering why some of the action words ("ing") don't appear on this website. Is it because I'm making up words or using them incorrectly?

For example:

Estoy bailando.
Está corriendo.

These are some of the words I have not been able to find:

Corriendo
Escuchando
Comprando
Ayudando
Drinking
Kissing

There are more, but these are examples. Does every verb have an "ing" form? Is there a rule to know that you are conjugating that word correctly?

Thanks,
Brenda

[sosia]

Does every verb have an "ing" form? Yes. Usually is -ando, -endo
Is there a rule to know that you are conjugating that word correctly?
ASk Tomissimo

[poli]

The present progressive is a verb tense it is integral to all verbs, but not
often used in auxilliary verbs in Spanish

[Tomisimo]

As a rule of thumb, all verbs have the present progressive form ("ing"), with the exceptions that poli mentions. As of now, the dictionary only has the root form of all verbs (the infinitive). I have been mulling over making it possible to search for conjugated forms of the verbs and have it point you to the infinitive. It would probably be something useful. For example, a search for bailando, bailaba, bailaré, bailase, bailó etc, would all point you to the root verb bailar. Do you think that would be something useful if I can figure out how to make it happen?

[bleitzow]

Oh, that would be very helpful! I get a picture of something along with a sentence. Then I try to look up the conjugated verb to see if it's "they are dancing", "they were dancing", and usually I can't find it.

Like:

"La semana pasada, hizo mal tiemp en la playa"
"Pon la taza en el fregadero" - Am I putting? He did put? What's going on here?
"La mujer se reúne con su gerente en la oficina" - what does reúne mean?

That would be great if you could figure it out.

Thanks!

[bleitzow]

Unfortunately, I did not understand Poli's explanation.

[Tomisimo]

I'll work on it, but in the meantime:

Originally Posted by bleitzow

"La semana pasada, hizo mal tiemp en la playa"
(There was bad weather at the beach last week.)
"Pon la taza en el fregadero" - Am I putting? He did put? What's going on here?
(Put the cup in the sink) - a command.
"La mujer se reúne con su gerente en la oficina" - what does reúne mean?
(The woman meets with the manager in the office.) "reúne" means "meets" or "is meeting" it's from reunir.