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Está lloviendo y el niño está llorando.

Está lloviendo y el niño está llorando.
It is raining and the child is crying.
From Lesson 59:Present continuous (-ando, -iendo)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about Está lloviendo y el niño está llorando.

Why does lloviendo end in -iendo but llorando ends in -ando?
This is because they come from different types of verbs! To make the continuous "-ing" form (the gerund) in Spanish, you look at the original verb. Llorando comes from an -ar verb (llorar, to cry), so you drop the -ar and add -ando. Lloviendo comes from an -er verb (llover, to rain), so you drop the -er and add -iendo.
Where is the word for "it" in está lloviendo?
Spanish doesn't use a subject pronoun for "it", especially when talking about the weather. The "it is" part is completely covered by the verb está on its own.
Why do we need to say está twice in this sentence?
Because you are describing two separate ongoing actions! Just like in English, the Spanish present continuous needs two parts: a form of the helper verb estar (to be) and the "-ing" word. You need one está for the rain (está lloviendo) and another está for the child (está llorando).
Are lloviendo and llorando related? They look and sound very similar.
They aren't related, but they are definitely easy to mix up! Both start with the double-L (ll), which is pronounced like the English "y" (as in "yellow"). They just happen to have similar spellings. Remember that llover means "to rain" and llorar means "to cry".

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