Divertirse haciendo algo

Question

Why haciendo and not this:

Me divertía hacer eso.

But

Me divertía haciendo eso is the correct one eh? Why iendo on this? How many verbs does this work with? I know movement verbs but I thought they were the only ones?

Disfrutaba haciendo eso?

Disfrutaba manejando mi coche en la noche?

Me divertía saltando de la fuente.

There's not a rule here is there, aside from the movement verbs thing, (los escudos siguen fallando, ando sonriendo zumbando, etc......) maybe just these two verbs use the gerundio (or whatever you want to call the iendo / ando thing)?

Gracias.

Answer 1

I don´t believe there is a rule for this stuff. We just know when to say it like this. All your examples are correct. It´s like a former teacher of Russian once told me, "Just say it correctly and that´s all."

Yeah, I try not to learn too many rules, just listen and hear what sounds right and learn it that way. - jeezzle, Feb 2, 2012

Good idea! - 005faa61, Feb 2, 2012

Answer 2

Me divierte used like gustar, is used with the infinitive:

Me divierte nadar. I like swimming-

Me divierte bucear. I like diving.

BUT

Me divertía patinando cuando era pequeña. I used to have fun skating when ....

me divierto nadando en mis horas libres. I have fun swimming in my free time.

I wonder if that is a rule, jeje, but it certainly works - 00494d19, Feb 2, 2012