+50 EXAMPLES of GERUNDIO in Spanish

We have previously seen the use of gerunds and their formation. In summary, Spanish verbs make up a complex conglomerate in ways that are very difficult to access as a foreign language. This language has a good number of verb tenses, which depend on three conjugations, in addition to an endless number of verbal irregularities. However, there are some verb forms that are invariable in their formation.

One of these verb forms of which we speak would be the gerund. Knowing its importance and, as in many cases, the possible difficulties that may arise when understanding its use, in a Teacher we are going to see a series of gerund examples accompanied by an explanation of this verbal formation. Arreando, which is a gerund!

Index

1. What is the gerund?
2. Examples of gerund in verbal periphrasis
3. The gerund as an adverb

The gerund is a verb, that is, a unconjugated form of the verb lacking the traits of time, gender, or number in its morphological formation. In the same way that we classify the gerund as a verb, the infinitives and participles would also be part of this nature. Therefore, as is the case with

As we will see below, on many occasions these verbs act as adverbs. However, and related to what we have been developing so far, the most normal thing will be to come across the gerunds forming part of a verbal periphrase (formations composed of two or more verbs acting as one) when the gerund acts as verb. However, in these periphrasis we will never see it as the main verb.

Therefore, and moving on to the morphological formation of the gerund itself, we must emphasize the fact that all they, regardless of the conjugation to which the verb formed in gerund belongs, are suffixed with the particle -ing. Thus, the gerund of to love would loving, that of to drink would drinking and that of feel would feeling.

However, it is also said that this suffix -ing should be divided into two main types depending on the three conjugations: -ando for the first (verbs ending in -ar) and -going for the second (verbs ending in -er) and third (those that end in -to go). In addition, there are those who include a third form for some specific verbs such as hear, to go or replace (there are some more), which would be -going (hearing, going or substituting). Well, let's put everything we have learned so far into practice and analyze a series of examples of the gerund.

We already saw in a previous article the division of the use of the gerund and the ways in which we can find it. However, in the present work we will draw on the classification we made in that article to classify the examples that we will develop. So we start with the gerund within the verbal periphrasis classified according to their accompanying auxiliary verb:

Finish + gerund

This periphrasis refers to an effect that occurs after a time, whether determined or indeterminate. The most common to see the auxiliary verb finish, in this case, conjugated in the past tense, although we can also see it in the future:

• Always we ended up going to the same bar for dinner, no matter how much we think about it.
• We were thinking for hours what movie to watch, but we ended up seeing that of superheroes.
• After much uncertainty they ended up buying the house of your dreams.
• How he had behaved so badly throughout the course ended up having than to stay grounded for a week.
• Having been on the mountain all morning I ended up resting on the couch the rest of the day.
• In the end I'll end up going to the university that I have always dreamed of.
• It is clear that you will end up getting married.
• Don't worry those kittens they will end up finding her home.
• If you don't rest a little bit you will end up sweating very much.
• It seems that Irene will end up leaving the job.

To be+ gerund

It is part of what we know as present progressive. This periphrase tells us about something that is happening in the present but has not yet finished. In these cases, of course, we will see the auxiliary to be in present. On the other hand, we can also find it in the past with a similar nature, but in reference to past actions with progressive value that have already ended a long time ago:

• Party It is ending, Stay a little longer.
• Juan it is done his doctoral thesis abroad and he does not know when he will return.
• I'm trying to understand all the information you developed yesterday.
• I do not understand why they are taking so much to finish the works on my street.
• Stop behaving like this because are you being a little disrespectful.
• Before they went on a trip they were playing with Vicente's game console for hours.
• That summer we were living every moment as the best time of our lives.
• It is normal that Carla approved with such a high grade since he was studying for two whole months.
• I was climbing all day, that's why I couldn't come earlier.
• I remember that day you were cooking all day for the guests.

Carry + gerund

A continuous job that comes from the past and continues today.

• I have been waiting this moment almost from the day I was born.
• I can't believe the house is so dirty yeah we have been cleaning for three days without stopping.
• It is normal that you do not have money if you have been buying unnecessary things since you have a job.
• We had been thinking so long into our wedding that in the end we arrived at it exhausted.
• Carries so long Playing to that game that could already be a professional.

Follow, continue + gerund

It has the same nature as carry + gerund, since an action that began in the past continues to be carried out in the present. It is also very common in conditional sentences:

• Being honest, I still have I really want to see you again.
• Is it okay that continue playing a while to this board game?
• That couple keep going to the same place to spend the afternoon for decades.
• I don't know if I will pass because remains difficult for me to understand the theory of this subject.
• Do you think that we will continue reading paper books in a few decades?
• Yes you keep carrying yourself so bad you won't get any good.
• Yes we keep walking this way we will arrive at the hostel a few minutes before.
• If you keep calling so insistently it is because he will have something important to say to you.
• Yes i keep crying it's because it really hurt.
• By now in the course they should be clear about whether they will continue studying or not.

To stay+ gerund

Durability is also made explicit, but normally the action has already ended.

• After having bought the things he thought necessary, he he was thinking in all that had been spent.
• I spent so much time in that gallery because I I was watching paintings for hours.
• You you were waiting to have the electrician come all day?
• I left quite late, but they know they were chatting on the bench until after sunrise.
• After seeing that magic trick in that magician's show, we we were hallucinating during hours.

We already saw in the article that we mentioned before the different types of adverbial functions that the gerund can fulfill. We are not going to focus now on all these functions of the gerund in its adverbial form, but it is important that we know that the gerund is often used as an adverb of many types (either of mode, time, cause, etc.). Therefore, if it is of interest, and to expand knowledge about it, we invite whoever believes it is relevant to visit the post we are talking about.

In general, an adverb complements any other element of the sentence such as the verb, adjective, etc. And, as we said, the gerund can be used as such. All in all, we are going to see a series of gerund examples acting as adverbs:

• What i do? Well here, talking with you.
• Yet buying all the cards it is almost impossible to get the one you lack.
• Singing so well it was obvious that they selected him for the contest.
• I sprained it working.
• Screaming so much you will not achieve anything, calm down.
• My band's rehearsal room is going the bridge and spinningin the first corner on the left.
• We knew right away that they had given him the job because he came home smiling From ear to ear.
• We will be quite late going down that road.
• I found the ticket buying, I can't get any more luck.
• You deserve all the best being such a good person.
• Studying so much will go far, but will end up exhausted.
• They kept climbing the mountain without rest, arriving to the top before everyone else.
• I got that wound in a hurry through the mountains because I tripped and fell.
• Sitting down this way you will get back problems. You better correct your posture.
• Even driving so well it is very difficult for me to become a professional driver, because many other factors come into play.
• It had to be a very intense gym class because she got home sweating fat drop.
• The theater is going down down the main street and leaving behind the auditorium. It has no loss.

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