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〜ています

Doing something right now; an ongoing statemachine translation

FormationVerb て-form + います

〜ています has two main meanings: (1) an action in progress — 「雨が降っています。」= It is raining; (2) an ongoing state — 住んでいます (live somewhere), 働いています (work somewhere), 結婚しています (be married).

How to form it: verb て-form + います. The negative is 〜ていません, the past is 〜ていました.

Note: verbs like 住む and 働く are almost always used in the 〜ています form when talking about the present; if you say 東京に住みます, the sentence instead means the future "will live".

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