One Way To Turn a Verb Into an Adjective

When most people think of present participles in Spanish (if they think about them at all!), they usually think of verb forms ending in -ando or -endo. They are the most common verb equivalents of the English present participle, which typically ends in "-ing." However, there is another type of present participle in Spanish, and those are the adjectives ending in -ante and -ente that are derived from verbs, such as andante (walking) and picante (spicy hot, from picar). Unfortunately if you're learning Spanish, not all verbs have such forms.