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What is the difference between I’m going to drink some water and I’m drinking some water ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between I’m going to drink some water and I’m drinking some water ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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@Keqing Thanks 😉 and to answer your other question, you can talk about something that will happen in the future using the verb-ing form (aka present participle). The tense you’re talking about is “future continuous”
An example of this is
“I will be drinking water later today”
The structure of this tense is
Subject + will + be + verb ing
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“I’m drinking some water” is in the present continuous tense. It means that the person is drinking some water right now and it’s still happening.
“I’m going to drink some water” is the future tense using “going to” and it tells the listener/reader that the person will drink water in the near future.
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I’m going to drink is the future tense, which means you aren’t drinking right now.
I’m drinking means you are currently drinking water.
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“I’m going to drink some water” is in future tense and means that you are planning on drinking water. “I’m drinking water” is when you are doing the action of drinking the water. I hope this makes sense
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@Sam2387 Thanks so much :) I wonder if “verb ing” can be used to say you’re about to do something aw well. Like the action that is going to happen after you have said it.
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@Keqing Thanks 😉 and to answer your other question, you can talk about something that will happen in the future using the verb-ing form (aka present participle). The tense you’re talking about is “future continuous”
An example of this is
“I will be drinking water later today”
The structure of this tense is
Subject + will + be + verb ing
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It really is. Sometimes I have a hard time understanding it and it is my first language.
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@Sam2387 Especially when it comes to translation, it’s whole different story. There are a bunch of things I need to master in both languages in order to work as a translator lol
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@Keqing I know this seems weird, but I just started learning Japanese, do you have any tips on how you got started?
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@Sam2387 I got started by learning the 50 characters in the language. After that I kept writing words with those characters beside the Kanji characters, which I think it’s easier to get the stuff stick in my brain. I also spent a lot of time listening to podcasts or anime while doing something else because I think the listening skill is one of the fundamental skills that’s connected to speaking skills and others. It kind of developed an intuition in my brain about what sounds natural and what doesn’t. Along with that, I also devoured a lot of comic books and novels in Japanese, which I think is a good way to help my brain recognize the “pattern” of the language.
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