Help me with japanese if you can please
How can I translate "I am eating"? because i know that to eat is 食べる, but is there a continous form that enphasises that the action is happening at the moment?
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I eat some grapes.
私はぶどうを食べます。
I am eating some grapes.
私はぶどうを食べています。／ 私はぶどうを食べている。
Snehalさんと Xuanさんがおっしゃるとおり、「食べている」と表現します。
Ciao!
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¡Buena pregunta! Y ya has recibido algunas respuestas y creo que ya entiendes esta forma. Si no, házmelo saber.
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The present progressive form: Verb てform + いる.
For example:
Taberu (食べる) with て form (食べて) + いる: Tabe-teiru (Tabe-teimas) 食べています
Kaku(書く) with てform(書いて)+いる: 書いています
*As the exception:
知る (shiru) : to know
When you want to say "I know", the form would always be "Verb てform + いる".
Ex. この犬を知っています。（not 知ります)
Hope it would help you :)
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Thank you very much, you were so fast in answering!!
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tabete iru. make te form of the verb and add imasu/iru. it makes it continuous tense
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