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Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar
IWhen -ing works as an adjective, in Spanish it's not expressed by a "gerundio":
· After a long working day, I usually relax by listening to some music.
Después de un largo día de trabajo, normalmente me relajo escuchando música.
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This is confusing. I think
escuchando is an adjective here.
Quote:
Originally Posted by aleCcowaN
El "participio presente" no existe en español.
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From a linguistic point of view, you may be technically correct, but this is extraordinarily confusing when you compare
estoy comiendo with
I am eating
This
comiendo is a
gerundio, while the
eating is a
present participle, and their functions are identical. In my book, it makes far more sense to identify this gerundio effectively as present participle, but simply with a different name.
In the above,
eating is an adjective. An English gerund is a noun, and according to my dictionary, so is
gerundio. I don't see how that can work with estoy, because surely the
gerundio is working here as an adjective.