Here's the excerpt I want to study, my aim being to revisit the explanations I've generously received in this thread:
(今。こうして "裁き"の
始まりを待っている)
"I am now waiting for the beginning of the judgment..."
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こうして: "thus", "in this way".
裁き: 『さばき』judgment (n.)
始まり: 『はじまり』beginning (n.)
待っている: 『まっている』"to wait", ~て form + auxiliary いる.
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Delving Deeper into ~て+いる construction
Regarding the ~て+いる, I wanted to provide online references about it:
There's this post made by Toritoribe here at the forum which doesn't require to read a whole chapter in a book to understand it provided you add-in a bit of information to it.
I'd like to break it down and add some more information where I felt would be useful to complete the explanation:
Add-on information
A punctual verb is:
A verb that represents a momentary action which either occurs once [...] or can be repeated continuously [...] DBJG, p.10
Example:
noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing incomplete or continued action. Beat and walk are durative in contrast to strike and step. Source.
Example:
Based on this explanation, we can determine that 「待っている」expresses the equivalent of the present progressive in English because 待つ is a durative verb, not a punctual one.
(今。こうして "裁き"の
始まりを待っている)
"I am now waiting for the beginning of the judgment..."
*
こうして: "thus", "in this way".
裁き: 『さばき』judgment (n.)
始まり: 『はじまり』beginning (n.)
待っている: 『まっている』"to wait", ~て form + auxiliary いる.
*
Delving Deeper into ~て+いる construction
Regarding the ~て+いる, I wanted to provide online references about it:
There's this post made by Toritoribe here at the forum which doesn't require to read a whole chapter in a book to understand it provided you add-in a bit of information to it.
I'd like to break it down and add some more information where I felt would be useful to complete the explanation:
This is a good start at explaining the form but it's missing some information about "durative verbs" and "punctual verbs".
Add-on information
A punctual verb is:
A verb that represents a momentary action which either occurs once [...] or can be repeated continuously [...] DBJG, p.10
Example:
A durative verb is:
noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing incomplete or continued action. Beat and walk are durative in contrast to strike and step. Source.
Example:
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Based on this explanation, we can determine that 「待っている」expresses the equivalent of the present progressive in English because 待つ is a durative verb, not a punctual one.