What does the ( not -ant) in the title mean, or refer to?

PamelaA2Kwiziq community member

What does the ( not -ant) in the title mean, or refer to?

This question relates to:French lesson "Using the infinitive form of verbs to express the English "-ING""

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LannyC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

-ant is seen in the present participle. You can use it to form things that look like -ing but they aren't serving as infinitives. Je fais l'exercice en nageant. == I exercise by swimming. When you work with the infitive you just use the -er, -ir, -re form of the verb and not the present participle. Here's some more information - https://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/gr/vpp1.html

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BarbaraA2Kwiziq community member

Thank you.

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