Haciendo o Hacienda?
¿Qué estás hacienda/o aquí? : what are you doing here?
What do we use here Haciendo or hacienda and why?
Thank you.
4 Answers
Que haces = Que estás haciendo = What are you doing.
Y no, no es un anglicismo.
OK?
Hola. I believe those two words are not related. Haciendo is the gerund of hacer, to do, to make. The gerund (-ing form in English) is a form or a verb and as such does not change gender. Hacienda is a ranch or country estate.
To reiterate what has been said: Using the verb estar with the present participle (gerundio) corresponds to the English progressive (or continuous) form of a verb. The present participle in this usage is not an adjective describing the subject of the verb so it does not need to agree in gender or number. Note that chileno has answered that there are 2 ways of asking "What are you doing?"
I wouldn't use either. It's more usual to ask ¿Que haces aqui? which would translate into English as "What are you doing here?"
Spanish tends not to use the continuous as frequently as English in these situations.
