"I have been wanting..."

Question

Okay, so I am confused on how to say this. Would it be "He estado queriendo comer." = I have been wanted to eat.

Or, would I use the "hace que" like with times. Not in this usage, but to know what I referring to, something like "Hace dos minutos que miro televisor."

I"m totally lost on this.

Furthermore, what tense would this be? Present perfect progressive?

Please and thank you.

Answer 1

Looks correct to me and you got the tense right. There is a reference article on progressive tenses that lists them all with examples.

Answer 2

I have been wantING to eat for hours.

He estado queriendo comer durante horas.

Answer 3

Yo tenia ganas, por esa cosa o la otra. Ya tenia ganas pa ver una pelicua. But that construction is wierd in spanish, because the sentence is wierd in spanish, how they speak it here. You either have ganas or you don't. You either satisified them or didn't. I've been wanting to go to the movies, is a distinctly american thing, I think, I haven't heard anything like in spanish, even among campesinos. It's you either do or don't....where I live and in what has been my personal experience in spanish.

Answer 4

Somewhere between neither and your second choice. "Hace dos minutos que quiero comer ... " / "Ddesde hace dos minutos quiero comer ... " / "Llevo dos minutos quieriendo comer ..."

Answer 5

Extrano said:

"Hace dos minutos que miro el televisor."

If you mean that you were looking at the television set (the appliance) and not the program on the set....then this is right.

If you mean that you were watching a program on the television you'd use:

to watch television = ver la televisión