ABSTRACT
Lo estoy pensando. I’m thinking about it. Ya se estaba haciendo tarde. It was already getting late. Aquel día estaban pasando cosas sorprendentes. Surprising things were happening that day.
2 To denote an action that is being repeated over a period of time: ¿Está escribiendo una novela? Is he writing a novel? Yo estaba esperando que llegara de un momento I was hoping that she would arrive from one a otro … moment to the next …
3 The verbs estar, ir, ser, tener, venir, volver are not normally used in the continuous form: Ahora viene. He’s coming now. ¿Adónde vamos? Where are we going? Volvían del aeropuerto cuando se encontraron They were returning from the airport when con sus amigos. they met their friends.
