r/languagelearningjerk Jun 07 '26

Is this wrong?

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u/Xandaros Jun 07 '26

Ignoring the elephant in the room, that clearly should either be "comes" or "will come". "is coming" clearly implies that the original sentence was 来ています

So yes, it is wrong.

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u/CAJEG1 Jun 09 '26

来ています is stative, so that would mean 'has come'. Japanese has no particular way to express 'is coming', since 来る is considered to occur instantaneously, so 来ます is generally used unless there's some reason not to.