Family and friends, handling compliments

[music playing] So, I was talking about the ‘te form you learned earlier, and I I used a few 'te iru' forms while talking just now. I said: Do you remember that structure ‘te iru/te imasu’ can express te ongoing action, ‘I’m doing or se else is doing something right n But after those two sentences, d another sentence containing ‘te. Here’s what it was: ‘Oboeru’ is a ru-verb that means ‘to learn’ or ‘to memorize’. But in that sentence, the verb ‘oboeru’ is used in the ‘te iru ‘oboete imasu ka’ and the meaning is ‘do you remember?’ This is not used for, ‘Are you ’ or, ‘Are you memorizing?’. The reason is because the ‘te i’ pattern has other uses besides describing on-going actions. In this lesson, we will cover how e ‘te iru’ form can be used to sha current state or current condit resulting from a prior action or event. In this case, you memorized something in the past, and what is continuing is the condin of having it memorized. As I said, the meaning of the dictionary form…