Feb 06 2008
Have in Spanish
| Have (tener) is our second word / phrase base in the essentials catagory when it comes to basic Spanish communication, as being able to ask if something is available is of vital importance to the traveler.
Here is a link to the first of the “essentials” where: donde.
You will notice in the examples below that tener, being a verb, has different conjugations based on the "person" it refers to. What’s cool about this is that you don’t need to include the pronoun when speaking, it’s built into, or "implied," in the verb. For example, you don’t need to say, ¿Usted tiene una pluma? (Do you have a pen?) You would simply ask, "¿Tiene una pluma? We will be using Usted for "you" in the examples below because it’s polite when asking something of someone you don’t know.
Note that a few of the examples below use have / tener to describe how one is feeling. That is because in Spanish you do not say I am hungry or I am tired. You would say, I have hunger or I have sleepy. This took me awhile to get used to, but this usage actually makes more sense than its English counterpart.
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| yo tengo |
| tú tienes Usted tiene Ustedes tienen |
| él, ella tiene |
| ellos, ellas, ustedes tienen |
| nosotros tenamos |
| Do you have rooms available? |
| ¿Tiene cuartos libres? |
| Do you have a pool? |
| ¿Tiene picina? |
| Do you have televisión? |
| ¿Tiene television? |
| Do you have room service? |
| ¿Tiene servicio al cuarto? |
| Do you have seafood |
| ¿Tiene mariscos? |
| Do you have change |
| ¿Tiene cambio? |
| I don’t have change |
| No tengo cambio. |
| I have sunglasses. |
| Tengo gafas. |
| I am hungry. |
| Tengo hambre. |
| She has a stomach ache. |
| Ella tiene dolor de estómago. |
| She is tired |
| Ella tiene sueño. |
| He is hot. (as in too much sun) |
| Él tiene calor. |
| He is cold. |
| Él tiene frío. |
| He has many years living here. |
| Él tiene muchos años viviendo aquí. |
