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Subject: Español
Topic: Estar + Gerundio
Class: IX

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Spanish Gerund Form

The gerund, also known as the present participle, is used to express several continuous actions in Spanish.
You can find the gerundio right under the definition when you conjugate a word using our conjugator.

The Gerund

To form the gerund of regular verbs, drop the infinitive ending (-ar, -er, -ir) and add -ando to the stem of -ar
verbs and -iendo to the stem of -er and -ir verbs.

How to Form the Gerund

infinitive stem gerund

-ar verbs hablar habl- hablando
-er verbs tener ten- teniendo
-ir verbs vivir viv- viviendo

There are a few irregular gerund endings which help to maintain pronunciation:

If the stem of -er or -ir verbs ends in a vowel, -iendo changes to -yendo.

 Whenever an unstressed i appears between two vowels, the spelling always changes to a y, not
just in the following gerunds.

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Yendo Gerunds

infinitive gerund

er verbs

atraer atrayendo
caer cayendo
contraer contrayendo
creer creyendo
leer leyendo
traer trayendo

ir verbs
construir construyendo
contribuir contribuyendo
excluir excluyendo
destruir destruyendo
huir huyendo
incluir incluyendo
influir influyendo
oír oyendo
ir yendo

Irregular IR

Ir (to go) is irregular in many tenses. If you were to treat it as a regular -ir verb, take away the -ir, you
would be left with simply -iendo. When the [ie] combination is stressed, it changes to a [y], making the
gerund for ir: yendo.

There are also some verbs that need a stem-change before adding the gerund ending to maintain
pronunciation:

 Any -ir verb that has a stem-change in the third person preterite (e->i, or o->u) will have the same
stem-change in the gerund form. The -er verb poder also maintains its preterite stem-change in the
gerund form.

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Stem-Change Gerunds

infinitive gerund
advertir advirtiendo
competir compititendo
conseguir consiguiendo
consentir consintiendo
convertir convirtiendo
decir diciendo
hervir hirviendo
mentir mintiendo
pedir pidiendo
reñir riñendo
repetir repitiendo
seguir siguiendo
servir sirviendo
sugerir sugiriendo
venir viniendo
poder pudiendo
dormir durmiendo
morir muriendo
divertirse divirtiendo(me,te,se..)

Class discusión

IR eding verbs
e i
o->u

Decir- deciendo- diciendo

Servir-serviendo- sirviendo
Dormir-durmiendo

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