The Present Continuous Tense

(The Present Progressive Tense)

Sadašnje trajno vreme

Am/is/are + Present Participle (verb + ing)

Affirmative (potvrdan)

1. I am playing 1. We are playing

2. You are playing 2. You are playing

3. He, she, it is playing 3. They are playing

Interrogative (upitan)

1. Am I playing? 1. Are we playing?

2. Are you playing? 2. Are you playing?

3. Is he, she, it playing? 3. Are they playing?

Negative (odričan)

1. I’m not playing 1. We aren’t playing

2. You aren’t playing 2. You aren’t playing

3. He, she, it isn’t playing 3. They aren’t playing

The Present Continuous (Progressive) Tense koristimo da opišemo radnje koje

radimo u trenutku govora, to jest one se dešavaju SADA (NOW) baš kada o njima
pričamo/govorimo.
Priloške fraze koje koristimo u ovom vremenu a koje nam govore da se radnja dešava
sada su:

Now At the moment In this picture Be quiet!

Listen! Look! Be careful! Shhh!

I am eating an apple now.

She is watching TV at the moment.

Look! The boys are playing football.

Listen! The girl is playing the piano.

Shh! The baby is sleeping.

Be quiet! I am talking.

In this picture, I’m wearing a beautiful hat and my mum is wearing sunglasses.

Kako dodajemo nastavak -ing glagolima u Present Continuous

(Progressive) Tense:

1. Većina glagola dobija nastavak –ing

playing opening reading

staying looking eating
crying listening drawing

2. Glagoli koji se završavaju na -e gube nastavak e i dodaje im se

nastavak –ing

write - writing close - closing make - making

have - having move - moving drive - driving
 give - giving hide - hiding leave - leaving

3. Postoji odrđeni broj glagola kod kojih dolazi do udvajanja poslednjeg

suglasnika kada im se dodaje nastavak – ing. To je zbog toga što se
ti glagoli završavaju na suglasnik kome prethodi kratak nenaglašeni
samoglasnik.

put – putting stop - stopping

swim – swimming drop - dropping

cut – cutting get - getting

hit - hitting

4. * zapamti ove glagole i kako im se dodaje nastavak –ing

lie – lying (lagati)

tie – tying (vezivati)

die - dying
Present Continuous for FUTURE ARRANGEMENTS

Present Continuous (Progressive) koristimo i da opišemo neke buduće

radnje to jest kada govorimo o tome šta smo se sa nekim dogovorili da
ćemo raditi u budućnosti – na primer: izlasci, putovanja, zakazani pregledi
kod zubara/lekara – jednom rečju, na engleskom se to kaže da opiše naše

future arrangements

ili

(social arrangements in the future)

/društveni dogovori vezani za budućnost/

 I’m seeing Mark tonight.

 She is travelling next Monday.
 I’m having an appointment at the dentist this evening.
 We are going to the village at the weekend.

After school at the weekend

tomorrow on Friday evening

This evening this afternoon

next week next month ...