Spanish infinitive form? Need help quick please?

Question

My Spanish teacher told me to write three actions in the infinitive form and she said ending in -ando. Does this make sense? Please give an example of what she is looking for. I don't know what she means!

Answer 1

lips is right. The "-ando" ending is characteristic of the present progressive, which uses a form of "to be" plus the present participle. The present participle is a verb form that functions like an adjective...e.g. "I am tired" or "I am walking". "Walking" describes what you are doing, so it's an adjective. In Spanish, you use "estar" + present participle, so "estoy caminando"

Although the gerund and present participle have the same form in English, the gerund is a verb form that functions as a noun, e.g. "Walking is good exercise." In Spanish, the gerund takes the same form as the infinitive, so "Caminar es un buen ejercicio".

Bottom line: as others have said, your Spanish teacher doesn't know her grammar terms. No Spanish infinitive ends in -ando.

Answer 2

The ending "-ando" corresponds to the gerund in Spanish. Infinitives end in AR, ER or IR. Maybe what your teacher tried to say is for you to look for cases of infinitives in English that are translated with the -ando form in Spanish.

Answer 3

For example:

I'm walking to my house - Estoy caminANDO a mi casa
She's practicing Spanish - Ella esta practicANDO español

Although, it's not the infinitive form. Actually if it ends in ANDO in Spanish, or ING in English, it's the present progressive. The infinitive form of a verb is not conjugated and it would be, for example: caminar, comer, correr, trabajar, bailar...etc...in English, to walk, to eat, to run, to work, to dance, etc...

I hope it helps.

Answer 4

Wait! I am right! http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~tsanchez/vubspless4arverbs.htm

The infinitive form of a verb is the most basic form of the verb. Also meaning, an unconjugated verb.
Example: nadar is in the infinitive verb tense, meaning "to swim"
If i conjugated the verb in the present tense, first person it would be "nado" or "I swim"

Other infinitive tenses:
Bailar -To dance
Comer--To eat
Caminar--To walk
Dormir--To sleep

Etc. Good luck!

Wait, hrm. I could be mistaken as it has been a while and a lot of people seem to dissagree with me. Lol. so instead go to ask.com and check there ^_~

Answer 5

She'd better get another job! She doesn't know any Spanish! "-ando" is gerund, not infinitive!

Give HER an F!

Answer 6

ando and iendo are the present progressive forms, they are the equivalent to our -ing

but it isnt considered a conjugated verb because they always follow a conjugated verb and you cant have two conjugations in a row.
Bailando- Bailar- To dance
Cantando- Cantar- To sing
Sentando- Sentar- To sit

Answer 7

Yeah, your teacher needs to get more sleep, infinitive would be something like:

caminar- to walk
comer - to eat

The verbs in infitive end in ar, er, ir.

caminar, comer, dormir.

Answer 8

your spanish teacher should study spanish.
the endings:" ando" and " endo", is like your " ing" in the continuous tense .
for example: I am eat-ing, in spanish we said: yo estoy comi-endo
the infinitive , in spanish , always ends in: er - ar -ir
comer - eat ---- caminar : walk ---- vivir: live

Answer 9

you take any regualr AR verb and add ando to it. the same goes for ER and IR verbs you add endo and iendo.

ex: hablando

Answer 10

Hi, Llegue, as others have said. You might want to try this method if you get stuck. Take the Yo form of the present indicative, drop the last letter, and add "e." But the "u" has to be added to '-gar" verbs to maintain the sound of the "e." FE