Trayendo

Trayendo is the present participle (gerund) of the Spanish verb traer, meaning to bring or carry toward the speaker. As a gerund, trayendo denotes an ongoing action and is used to form progressive tenses with estar, or to indicate simultaneous action in a sentence. For example: Estoy trayendo la caja (I am bringing the box); Él entró trayendo un regalo (He entered, bringing a gift).

Formation and irregularity: The verb traer is irregular, and its gerund is trayendo rather than a regular traer- form. The spelling reflects a stem change from traer to tray- and the addition of -iendo. In practice, trayendo is widely used in speech and writing when a continuous sense of bringing is intended.

Usage notes: Trayendo commonly appears in present and past progressive constructions and can describe actions occurring at the same time as another event. It can be used with auxiliary verbs to express ongoing activity, as in ha estado trayendo (has been bringing) or seguimos trayendo (we continue bringing). In more formal contexts, speakers may prefer concise prescriptive forms and use the simple perfect or imperfect tenses of traer instead of the gerund to convey aspect.

See also: Traer, the broader Spanish verb system for bringing, and the gerundio as a grammatical category in Spanish.