haciendo

Haciendo is the gerund of the Spanish verb hacer, meaning doing or making. It is formed from the infinitive by adding the -iendo ending, yielding haci- + -endo in a standard pattern. The word traces its origin to Latin facere, via the gerund faciendo, which became the Spanish gerund haciendo.

As a grammatical form, haciendo is used to express ongoing or simultaneous action and to form progressive tenses with auxiliary verbs such as estar, seguir, or ir. Examples include estoy haciendo la tarea (I am doing the homework), seguimos haciendo planes (we are still making plans), and va haciendo progresos (he/she is making progress). The gerund can also indicate duration, as in llevo haciendo este trabajo desde la mañana (I have been doing this work since morning) or voy haciendo avances (I am gradually making progress).

Haciendo can function in adverbial or participial phrases, often describing the manner or circumstances of another action. For instance: Salió haciendo ruido (he left making noise), la persona haciendo el trabajo (the person doing the work). While common in everyday speech, it is generally preferable in formal writing to use a finite verb form or a relative clause, such as la persona que está haciendo el trabajo.

In Spanish, the gerund is not typically used as a noun; to refer to the activity in noun form, one would use phrases such as la acción de hacer or el hacer. Haciendo, therefore, serves primarily to convey ongoing action, aspect, and temporal continuity within clauses, rather than serving as a nominalized concept.