Grammar in Mandarin
IHow many words in Chinese Mandarin that describle Present/Past Continuous Tense? Is there any Present/Past Perfect Continuous Tense in Mandarin? Can you give example in sentences pleases? Thank you.I am sure there must have some tenses in Chinese. Or at least they are the words that describle the Past, Present and Future tenses. I do know some words to describe these tenses such as 已经，正在，将会，就要。。。and many more I guess. As I sometimes dont know how to use these words correctly. For example when I got a call to ask somebody, I wanted to say that he/she was talking on phone but I dont know how to say, is this sentence correct: "他正在讲电话 "? Or what are you doing? I am doing... and I was stuck... because of the word "doing". So I do hope to get more replies from some languages friends here who can give me more words to describle the Past, Present and Future and examples in sentences so that its easier for me and those who are learning Chinese Mandarin to understand and to learn successfully. Thank you.

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Grammar in Mandarin
IHow many words in Chinese Mandarin that describle Present/Past Continuous Tense? Is there any Present/Past Perfect Continuous Tense in Mandarin? Can you give example in sentences  pleases? Thank you.I am sure there must have some tenses in Chinese. Or at least they are the words that describle the Past, Present and Future tenses. I do know some words to describe these tenses such as 已经，正在，将会，就要。。。and many more I guess. As I sometimes dont know how to use these words correctly. For example when I got a call to ask somebody, I wanted to say that he/she was talking on phone but I dont know how to say, is this sentence correct: "他正在讲电话 "? Or what are you doing? I am doing... and I was stuck... because of the word "doing". So I do hope to get more replies from some languages friends here who can give me more words to describle the Past, Present and Future and examples in sentences so that its easier for me and those who are learning Chinese Mandarin to understand and to learn successfully. Thank you.

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The good news is chinese does not need to change the verb itself, like what you asked doing or did , or done , the verb will just the do. but we will put something before or after the verb to show the tence as you already knew . 
I will try to give some example , hope that could explain a little to you 
I am calling , 我 在 打电话 
I will call， 我 要 打电话 
I called 我 打电话 了, 我 打 了 电话。 
I have called。 我 已经 打电话 了 
see, the word 打 would not change , 
You are a clever girl , that already knew there is tence ， and lucky you, chinese tence is not hard . hehe .

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present:正在，正
past:曾经，以前，做过什么，小时候
future:马上，一会儿，将要，过一会儿
Chinese  always use those three  tenses.DOn't worry about the tense anymore

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Chinese is the language from the blocks one by one, so if you want to express tense, you can add some words. For example, we will say that(我以前学过游泳 I've learned  swim)、(我正在学游泳 I'm learning to swim)、(我将要学游泳 I'll  to learn to swim), which was  by three words(过去、正在、将要) and expressed three tense.

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There are no tenses in Chinese.

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漢語一般是用詞或句表示時態，比如“正在”“已經”，for example, I read a paper,(我看報），I am reading a paper（我正在看報），just insert the “正在”into the proper place

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