Questions & Answers about ¿Siguen sin podar el césped hoy?
Why is this translated as 'still not mowing' instead of using todavía no?
The structure seguir sin + infinitive is a very natural way in Spanish to express that an expected action is still not happening. While you could say ¿Todavía no podan el césped?, using siguen sin podar emphasizes the continuous nature of the negative state—literally, 'they continue without mowing'.
Why is the infinitive podar used here instead of the gerund podando if the English translation uses an '-ing' word?
In Spanish, whenever a verb immediately follows a preposition like sin, it must be in its infinitive form. Even though the English translation is 'mowing', you can never say sin podando; it must always be sin podar.
I thought podar meant 'to prune' or 'to trim'. Does it also mean 'to mow'?
Does adding hoy change the grammar of the seguir sin structure?