~ている (ongoing state)

grammar

923 sentences

The auxiliary ~ている attached to a verb — marks an ongoing action with activity verbs (食べている 'is eating', 氷が溶けている 'the ice is melting'), or a resulting state with change-of-state verbs (疲れている 'is tired', 結婚している 'is married'). The negative form ~ていない / ~ていません covers 'has not X-ed yet' or 'hasn't been X-ing.' The umbrella aspectual auxiliary; see also the narrower `~ている (resulting state)` and `~ている (habitual action)` tags for filters targeting those specific readings.

923 sentences

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I love you.

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Reckless from childhood, I've been losing out my whole life because of it.

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Day after day, the dog sat in front of the station waiting for its master.

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In short, Sherlock is alive.

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Your eyes give you away.

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When Kepler saw the smaller planets orbiting Jupiter, they reminded him of the bodyguards surrounding a king on a journey, so he named them satellites.

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Are you seriously telling me you love me?

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Just who do you think I am?

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You think I'm a sucker, don't you.

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I love you all the more for your faults.

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When she saw him walking with another girl, she got jealous.

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She had been gradually fading from my memory.

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It looks like she's hiding something to surprise me with.

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She's really angry with me.

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She got it into her head that I was talking behind her back.

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She kept the memory of her dead husband locked in her heart.

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She was destined to live a miserable life.

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She's watching kabuki right now.

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She's gone, but I still love her.

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Her eyes shone with happiness.

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It looks like she's munching away on a feast over there.

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She was watching the dead leaves drift down.

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She lives happily with her husband near the sea in Kamakura.

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She's at her wit's end trying to manage the household budget.

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She looks like she's possessed by an evil spirit.

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She still believes her son is alive.

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She's still living off her parents.

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She dotes on that boy as if he were her own real son.

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She's almost certainly enjoying a soak in a hot spring right about now.

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The yakuza are putting Hiroshi through a trial.