"我喝水。"

Translation: I drink water.

[JohnRachmi]

I think everyone drinks water Kevin

[NemoWolf1]

Could this also be translated as "I am drinking water" or it'd require another structure?

[francis.rod01]

Good question, but... No. It's not like French, sorry learner!

To express that you're doing something right now, you can use "在 / Zài" + something.

在 / Zài -- can be translated as a "be" verb or more:

• be
• exist
• remain
• dwell

and so on, As a preposition:

• in
• at

You can see more examples at:

Using Verb Tenses in Chinese -- Read the "Continuing Actions" section.

https://www.thoughtco.com/mandarin-timeframes-2279615

[Rob_patrick1]

我就在喝水（呀）

[PoPo681708]

Apparently my phone drinks water

[weirdnerdykid123]

lol

[Ubayd13]

I wrote "I drink" by mistake and it was correct with alternative translation "I drink water". Is that true?

[orgat]

I think it's because in Chinese, many verbs require a noun. For example if you want to say "eat" you can't just say 吃， you have to add a noun. Since rice 饭 is the most common food in China, to simply say "eat" is to "eat rice - 吃饭＂。
I am guessing it works the same way with water 水。
To simply say "drink", you need to add the most common beverage which is water.

[MrSpidey2]

After the sign "I", I chose the signs 1 by 1 "drink" and "water" instead of using the combined sign "drink water" and the program gave an error message.

[infantekm]

How do we say those in past tense tho?

[.Alex_]

You can say 我喝过水了 means I have already drank the water

[KathleenBl335239]

Computer glitch my answer is: I drink water and my answer if correct

[AltAccount10]

That is a correct answer, not a glitch.

[FluffyDaCorgi]

我喝不水。

[JarlGeorge]

Drink water regularly.
A reminder from our friend Duo.