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What's the difference between 感謝している and 感謝する? Looking at
<http://www.tanos.co.uk/jlpt/skills/vocab/sentences/?vocabid=85961> , I get
the impression that for the word 感謝, it is not as simple as one being the
continuous tense and the other, the present tense. From the link, it seems
that both has the meaning of "I am grateful" (in the state of being grateful),
and that means both is in continuous tense rather than present. Sounds to me
like 感謝する does not/cannot/will not mean "I will be grateful". A more concrete
example:

食べ物に感謝する and 食べ物に感謝している both means "I am grateful for the food". The former
cannot mean "I will be grateful for the food" and can only ever mean "I am
grateful for the food"
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Difference between 感謝している and 感謝する
感謝する is "to thank", and 感謝している is "to have been thankful (since sometime in
the past)" or "to be (always) thankful". Use 感謝します when someone just did
something for you. Use 感謝しています when someone did something for you in the past
and you've been thankful since then. You can say (この)食べ物に感謝します referring to
one specific meal in front of you. You can say 食べ物に感謝しています to mean you are
always thankful for food.
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