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Italian gerund and progressive tenses: stare + -ando / -endo
The gerund (-ando/-endo), progressive forms with stare, and the compound gerundio (avendo/essendo + participle).
In Italian: Gerundio e forme progressive
The gerund ends in -ando for -are verbs and -endo for the other two families: parlando, scrivendo, dormendo.
stare plus the gerund is Italian's only true progressive, and it means right now: sto mangiando. Unlike English it cannot carry a future — tomorrow I'm leaving is domani parto, not sto partendo.
On its own the gerund supplies a reason or a manner: essendo stanco, sono andato a letto; si impara sbagliando.
In questo momento sto ___ i compiti.
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