manteniendo

Manteniendo is the gerund form of mantener, a Spanish verb meaning to maintain, keep, sustain, or support. As a present participle, manteniendo denotes an ongoing action related to keeping or preserving something and is used in various periphrastic constructions and progressive tenses.

Grammar and usage: Manteniendo is commonly used with estar to form progressive aspects, as in Estoy manteniendo la casa or Estamos manteniendo las operaciones. It can also express concurrent actions, for example, Manteniendo la calma, resolvió el problema. The gerund can take object pronouns attached to it, yielding forms like Estoy manteniéndolo. The reflexive counterpart, manteniéndose, appears with mantener(se): Se está manteniendo en forma. Mantenerse emphasizes remaining in a state, while mantener focuses on the act of maintaining.

Examples of common contexts: preserving a condition (Manteniendo la estabilidad, el equipo avanzó), continuing a process (La empresa ha estado manteniendo sus estándares), and practical tasks (Estoy manteniéndolo al día con las noticias).

Etymology: Mantener derives from Latin roots related to holding or supporting, and manteniendo inherits this sense as the gerund of the verb. The language uses manteniendo to express ongoing maintenance across physical, organizational, and abstract domains.

See also: mantener, mantenerse, sostener, preservar.