{"id":67,"date":"2007-08-28T09:18:44","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T13:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=67"},"modified":"2014-07-18T15:48:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T15:48:21","slug":"present-progressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/present-progressive\/","title":{"rendered":"Present Progressive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Present Progressive<\/strong> or <strong>Continual Present<\/strong> tense is very useful and easy to form in Portuguese. This tense represent <em>ongoing action<\/em> in the present; its counterpart in English is the construction <em>[subject] is [verb] &#8211; ing<\/em> for example: <em>I am running<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To form this tense in Portuguese, all you need to do is employ the verb <strong>estar<\/strong> and the <strong>gerund<\/strong> of the verb you wish to use. One forms the gerund in Portuguese by dropping the ending (-ar, -er, -ir) and adding <strong>-ando, -endo, -indo<\/strong> respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples:<br \/>\nEstou <strong>falando<\/strong>; <em>I am speaking<\/em><br \/>\nEle est\u00e1 <strong>indo<\/strong>; <em>He is going<\/em><br \/>\nO presidente est\u00e1 <strong>mandando<\/strong>;<em>The president is ordering<\/em><br \/>\nA familia est\u00e1 <strong>despedindo<\/strong>;<em>The family is saying goodbye<\/em><br \/>\nEla est\u00e1 <strong>treinando<\/strong>;<em>She is training<\/em><br \/>\nVoc\u00ea est\u00e1 <strong>fazendo<\/strong>;<em>You are doing<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThis form is one where the continental (European) form is different from the Brazilian. In Portugal, the <strong>presente cont\u00ednuo<\/strong> is comprised of the verb <strong>estar<\/strong> plus <strong>a<\/strong> and the <strong>infinitive<\/strong>. An example would be: Voc\u00ea est\u00e1 <strong>a escrever<\/strong>? <em>Are you writing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This difference is one of the first things to jump out at a student of Brazilian Portuguese when hearing continental Portuguese for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Present Progressive or Continual Present tense is very useful and easy to form in Portuguese. This tense represent ongoing action in the present; its counterpart in English is the construction [subject] is [verb] &#8211; ing for example: I am running To form this tense in Portuguese, all you need to do is employ the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/present-progressive\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-grammar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5338,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/5338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}