Finnish has three ways of expressing continuity of action, that spring to mind.
One is putting the object of the action in the partitive case, which expresses incompleteness of action. This is really simple and really common.
Another is using a true passive verb, that takes neither subject nor an object, in present or past tense. This would be your "sataa" or "rains". This is very common for the verbs for which it works.
Third one is using auxiliary "is" together with the verb form that's near identical in appearance to the "location within" case. I don't think it's parsed as a true "location within" case, but I'd wager a pastry that it's related to the noun case. So that would be "I was within the action of drinking coffee". This is not uncommon by any means, but it is a marked form in that it emphasises the in the middle of action-aspect.
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