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"have" in spanish
Tenemos, tienen, tiene, tienes, tengo
What are there meanings? I am getting a bit mixed up Also - when someone says "nosotros tenemos (continue sentence) what does that mean exactly beacuse I thought both 'nosotros' and 'tenomos' meant 'we' and therefore translating as 'we we have' |
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Hello and welcome. This is all quite simple, really. In English, the ending a verb does not really tell you who the subject is, so you need a personal pronoun for that:
I have You have He/She/It has We have You have They have In Spanish the pronoun is not needed because the verb ending tells you: tengo = I have tienes = you (singular) have tiene = he/she/it has tenemos = we have tenéis = you (plural) have tienen = they have But there are times when you need an emphasis, where the subject is stressed. For example "Has anybody got any money? No, I haven't" In English, this distinction is expressed by stress on the I. In Spanish, the emphasis is made by inserting a personal pronoun which is in theory redundant. Yo no tengo. Does that help? |
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Yes it does help thanks you very much I guess I just get them all mixed up because they are very similiar words :P
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It's very important to know that there are two principal verbs for to have
in Spanish: tener and haber. Haber is the equivalent the the auxiliary verb to have. For example: to have finished=haber termindo Tener means to have as in possess. For example: to have a house=tener una casa
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