Iré + Participio + Un Verbo
Katie irá dejando caer sus barreras, echando raíces en la comunidad y acercándose cada vez más a Alex y su familia.
¡Hola a todos!
En la frase de arriba, Qué significa exactamente con " irá dejando caer o irá echando raíces (creo que el verbo ir es para todos tres participios) o irá acercándose"?
Puede alguien explicarme por favor ?
Es lo que quisieron decir en inglés "Katie will be letting her barriers drop and will be taking root in the community and each time will be getting closer to Alex and his family."
¡Muchas gracias!
Hi everyone!
In the sentence above, What does the "irá dejando caer o irá echando raíces (I think the verb "irá" is used for all the tree verbs) o irá acercándose" mean?
Can someone please explain me what they wanted to say in the sentence above?
Is "Katie will be letting her barriers drop and will be taking root in the community and each time will be getting closer to Alex and his family." what they wanted to mean ?
Or is that structure something like "will be doing something" ?
Thank you!
Por favor, corrijan mis frases, si hay algunos errores en cualquier idioma.
2 Answers
http://spanish.about.com/od/verbs/a/verb_gerund.htm
I will only bring in the part on ir (I know you actually go and read the links):
Ir + gerund: Sometimes, ir is used in the same way as andar, above.
But it usually doesn't have the negative connotation. In fact, it usually suggests that the action in progress is proceeding gradually or steadily. Again, translations of ir followed by the Spanish gerund can vary with the context.
Vamos estudiando mejor la situación real del pueblo. We are coming to study better the real situation of the people.
Fueron comprando trozo a trozo el terreno durante un proceso de unos quince años más o menos. They went about buying the land one piece at a time during a process that lasted 15 years more or less.
Los estudiantes van ganando influencia. The students are steadily gaining influence.
As the source notes, a gradual progressive process, not a sudden thing- But I think your understanding of what it is saying is correct. The construction simply emphasizes the nature of the process by which she will do it.
I once asked a native speaker about gerundio use with the future tense and he said it is only used if you really want to stress the continuous nature of the future event. I guess this gels well with Bosque's description of a gradual progressive process.
