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[leaden bronze]

Please be patient

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[rustic carbon]

habiter is both "to live" and "living" depending ont he grammatical context

there is also "habitant" which is the present participle, which can meaning "leaving" but in certain specific grammatical contexts

[strong plume]

Oh

[strong plume]

Then “acheter” to buy how do u change that into buying

[stray notch]

The word used will be different depending on what is being expressed. There are sentences with the English word "buying" where "acheter" will appear. And there are sentences with the English word "buying" where "achetant" will appear. And there are sentences where "buying" will appear as like, progressive aspect or whatever, and some conjugated past tense form of acheter will be used. Probably more...

[cinder oracle]

That really depends on what the word ‘buying’ is.
The English gerund can be used in place of the infinitive when the verb is used as a noun (believing is seeing / to believe is to see) and in French this is only the infinitive (croire c’est de voir).
The English gerund forms part of a progressive/continuous structure to be + verb-ing (I am walking my dog) but this structure doesn’t exist in French, it’s translated by the simple present (je promène mon chien) or a structure that emphasises the action (je suis en train de promener mon chien – I am in the middle of walking my dog).
There’s more but the point is that it really depends.

[strong plume]

Thank you so much that’s gonna be hard I thought French was easy😭

[strong plume]

Thank you so much do if u have any yt video recommendations explaining this in more depth pls lmk🙏🙏

[strong plume]

Also tyy sm

[cinder oracle]

Just a bit of a taste
https://youtu.be/9drC7kPyJ_Q?si=7Q6Oo-PmKWeNdNhR

[hollow kite]

it’s not actually that hard once you accept that you can’t directly translate this kind of thing

the gerund and infinitive play slightly different roles in french and english