some verbs don't mean that someone is currently performing an | Learn Japanese

some verbs don't mean that someone is currently performing an action, for example 結婚する [けっこんする] "to marry" in its ている (結婚している [けっこんしている]) form means "I am married" or "he/she is married"

this is also the case with 生きる [いきる], which means "to live", and 生きている [いきている] means "I'm alive", rather than "I'm living"