Spanish B1 · Day 40
Day 40: La carrera popular — Seguir and continuar + gerund
What you'll learn
- Grammar: Seguir and continuar + gerund
- Reading: Una carrera popular inolvidable
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Grammar point: Seguir and continuar + gerund
Imagine you are telling a story or giving instructions. How do you show that something keeps happening, not just once? Spanish uses seguir and continuar with a gerund, the -ando or -iendo form.
Key vocabulary (8 of 32 words)
- la carrera popular, las carreras populares – mass fun run
- el gerundio, los gerundios – Spanish gerund form
- el dorsal, los dorsales – bib
- seguir, sigue, siguió, ha seguido – to keep
- la inscripción, las inscripciones – entry
- continuar, continúa, continuó, ha continuado – to keep on
- el pelotón, los pelotones – pack
- entrenar, entrena, entrenó, ha entrenado – to train
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