aceitando

Aceitando is the gerund form of the Portuguese verb aceitar, meaning to accept, to agree, or to receive. As a gerund, aceitando expresses an ongoing or concurrent action related to accepting, and it can appear with auxiliary verbs to indicate a progressive aspect, such as estar aceitando, ficar aceitando, or continuar aceitando. It can also function in non-progressive contexts to emphasize the act of accepting in the moment.

Etymology and form: Aceitar comes from the Latin acceptare, through Romance language developments that produced Portuguese aceitar. The gerund aceitando is formed by adding the suffix -ando to the verb stem aceit- (derived from ace-), following standard Portuguese pattern for present participles.

Usage and nuances: In Brazilian Portuguese, aceitando is commonly used in progressive constructions, for example: Estou aceitando as condições do acordo. Ele está aceitando o convite. In European Portuguese, speakers sometimes prefer the construction estar a aceitar for the progressive sense, rather than using the bare gerund, especially in formal writing. Aceitando can also appear in subordinate clauses to indicate a scenario in which someone is in the process of accepting something.

Common collocations include aceitar propostas, aceitar convites, aceitar condições, and aceitar críticas. The gerund is not typically used to form past tenses; those are handled with the appropriate finite forms of aceitar or with other periphrastic constructions.

See also: Aceitar, Aceitação, Aceitável.

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