Re: Verbs with -teiru

On Nov 1, 3:11 pm, Bart Mathias <math...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Similarly, anyone who is not dead is alive.

Picky, picky!

Anyway, the only time you really use that kind of sentence is during
police stake-outs, when one cop is on the walkie-talkie to another.
"He's entering the house. He's opening the door. He's looking around."
In Japanese it would be something like "ima ie ni hairimashita. doa wo
aketeimasu. mimawatteiru you desu."

Actually specifying the process of an action is rare, but you're right
that the OP's choice of verbs was bad. A better example would be
ochiru, I think.

ringo ga yuka ni ochiteimasu.

This is literally "an apple is on the floor, having fallen." To say
"an apple is falling from the table" you'd have to use the
construction I used at the beginning - "ringo ga teeburu kara shita ni
ochiteiru tokoro"

Marc

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