No. 10,089 in Spanish
cavando
"Digging."
In a sentence
Él está cavando un pozo en el jardín.
He is digging a well in the garden.
In this sentence, 'cavando' is used to indicate the action of digging being performed by someone at the present moment or in a continuous aspect.
Mientras cavando, encontró una roca extraña.
While digging, he found a strange rock.
Here, 'cavando' appears in a temporal phrase to describe the act of digging concurrently with discovering an object.
Ellos llevan horas cavando para encontrar el tesoro.
They have been digging for hours to find the treasure.
In this usage, 'cavando' is part of a continuous activity indicating a prolonged effort in the act of digging with the intent to uncover something.
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