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Was ist der Unterschied zwischen I have lived here for fifteen years. und I have been living here for fifteen years. ?Du kannst auch einfach Beispielsätze geben.
Was ist der Unterschied zwischen I have lived here for fifteen years. und I have been living here for fifteen years. ?Du kannst auch einfach Beispielsätze geben.
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- Englisch (US)
These are almost exactly the same
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Thank you!
How do you use this properly?
Could I use both same situation?
How do you use this properly?
Could I use both same situation?
- Englisch (US)
@anonimasu I agree about the second sentence, but I wouldn't use the first one if the action were completed either. I'd use "I lived here for fifteen years" or, if necessary to show a timeline, "I had lived here for fifteen years"
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Sorry.
It’s difficult.
Could you explain more easily?
It’s difficult.
Could you explain more easily?
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@m08026631783 they are both correct!
what these people were saying is that “I have lived here for fifteen years” can mean that you are no longer living here/you finished living here. but “i have been living here for fifteen years” implies that you still live there.
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@m08026631783 Sure, sorry. I don't think you should worry about those details.
What @anonimasu and I are trying to say is:
When describing the place you live NOW, you can say
"I have been living here for fifteen years"
or
"I have lived here for fifteen years."
Both versions are correct.
I live in New York. I have lived here for fifteen years. (I have been living here for fifteen years).
I think I'd be more likely to say "I have lived here" for the general place (New York) and "I have been living here" for my specific apartment. But either is fine. It's not a big deal.
If you live somewhere else now, @anonimasu thinks you can say "I have lived here for fifteen years" to describe the place you lived in the past.
For example, if I go to New Jersey, where I lived in the past, but I live in New York now. 'i have lived here [New Jersey] for fifteen years."
I was asking @anonimasu about that, because I disagree. I would not use either of these phrases to describe a place you lived in the past.
But I'm curious to hear more about what @anonimasu thinks.
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@echak You're right, I misspoke. The present perfect tense can be used for both ongoing actions and completed actions. For example,
I've been sitting here for three hours - ongoing action
I've graduated college - completed action
That much is true, but I got caught up in the fact that the first sentence is in the present perfect form and wrongfully implied that all present perfect sentences can be either ongoing or completed - so I apologize for that. Thanks for challenging me on my initial reply. I try to give people the best answers that I can, but (clearly) I'm not immune to giving a lacking answer.
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So to give a better, more correct answer, the first sentence is in the present perfect tense and is referring to an ongoing action. The second is in the present perfect continuous and thus necessarily is referring to an ongoing action. When you use the present perfect tense with an action that has occurred for any duration of time, the action is necessarily ongoing. For example,
I've lived in Arkansas for six months.
I've been going to school for five years.
They've only been singing for three minutes.
She hasn't even been an adult for ten seconds.
That said, the present perfect can be used with completed actions. For example,
I've lost my wallet.
I have finished the job.
I've done all that I can.
We've already washed the dishes.
So while the first sentence is in the present perfect tense and the second is in the present perfect continuous, they're both describing ongoing actions and thus mean the same thing.
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