Breakdown of Я буду путешествовать и продолжать учиться.
и
and
я
I
быть
to be
путешествовать
to travel
учиться
to study (be a student)
продолжать
to continue
Questions & Answers about Я буду путешествовать и продолжать учиться.
Why is the word буду only used once if I am doing two things in the future?
Just like in English, you don't need to repeat the helper verb. буду (I will) applies to both actions connected by и (and). When using буду to form the compound future tense, the main verbs always take their imperfective infinitive form to show an ongoing or repeated action.
Why are there three infinitive verbs (путешествовать, продолжать, учиться) in this sentence?
The first two verbs, путешествовать (to travel) and продолжать (to continue), are infinitives because they follow the future helper verb буду. The last one, учиться (to study), is an infinitive because it follows продолжать. Just like in English, when you say you 'continue to do something', the action being continued stays in its dictionary form.
I know учить means to study or learn. Why does it have -ся at the end here?
Adding -ся makes the verb reflexive. While учить is used when memorizing something specific (like 'learning words') or teaching a subject, учиться is used for the general, ongoing process of being a student or acquiring knowledge. That makes it the natural choice for this sentence.
Why does учиться have a soft sign (ь) before the -ся?
Because it is in the infinitive form. When a reflexive verb answers the question 'what to do?' (like 'to study'), it keeps the soft sign to become -ться. If it were conjugated for a person, like 'he studies' (он учится), that soft sign would disappear.
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