"have" in spanish

[EruIluvatar]

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'

[Perikles]

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?

[EruIluvatar]

Yes it does help thanks you very much :) I guess I just get them all mixed up because they are very similiar words :P

[poli]

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