{"id":333,"date":"2015-09-28T20:21:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T20:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/spanish1oli\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=333"},"modified":"2015-10-17T15:04:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T15:04:40","slug":"estructuras-gramaticales-usos-del-verbo-tener-1","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/chapter\/estructuras-gramaticales-usos-del-verbo-tener-1\/","title":{"raw":"Usos del verbo tener (needs edit)","rendered":"Usos del verbo tener (needs edit)"},"content":{"raw":"&nbsp;\r\n<h2><b>Usos del verbo tener: posesi\u00f3n<\/b><\/h2>\r\nThe verb <span class=\"foreign\">tener<\/span> in Spanish means \"to have.\" Similar to the verbs you have just seen, <span class=\"foreign\">tener<\/span> does not follow the pattern of regular \u2013<em>er<\/em> verbs and is irregular in the <span class=\"foreign\">yo<\/span> form of the verb. Below you can see the conjugation of <span class=\"foreign\">tener<\/span>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<table id=\"N118F7_bx\" class=\"conjugation labeled \">\r\n<thead>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>tener \u2013 to have (tiempo presente)<\/th>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/thead>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<table class=\"conjugation\">\r\n<thead>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th><\/th>\r\n<th><span class=\"foreign\">singular<\/span><\/th>\r\n<th><span class=\"foreign\">plural<\/span><\/th>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/thead>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>1<sup>a<\/sup><\/th>\r\n<td><a id=\"_i_0\" class=\"pronunciation\" title=\"Click to listen\"><\/a><span class=\"pronouns\">yo<\/span> tengo<\/td>\r\n<td><a id=\"_i_1\" class=\"pronunciation\" title=\"Click to listen\"><\/a><span class=\"pronouns\">nosotros<\/span> tenemos<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>2<sup>a<\/sup><\/th>\r\n<td><a id=\"_i_2\" class=\"pronunciation\" title=\"Click to listen\"><\/a><span class=\"pronouns\">t\u00fa<\/span> tienes<\/td>\r\n<td><a id=\"_i_3\" class=\"pronunciation\" title=\"Click to listen\"><\/a><span class=\"pronouns\">vosotros<\/span> ten\u00e9is<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>3<sup>a<\/sup><\/th>\r\n<td><a id=\"_i_4\" class=\"pronunciation\" title=\"Click to listen\"><\/a><span class=\"pronouns\">\u00e9l\/ella\/usted<\/span> tiene<\/td>\r\n<td><a id=\"_i_5\" class=\"pronunciation\" title=\"Click to listen\"><\/a><span class=\"pronouns\">ellos\/ellas\/ustedes<\/span> tienen<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOne of the principal uses of <em><span class=\"foreign\">tener<\/span><\/em> is to express possession, just as we do with the verb \"to have\" in English.\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><span class=\"translation\" title=\"I have a new computer.\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/l4_leccion4\/webcontent\/S1L4S072.mp3\" target=\"audio\"><img style=\"vertical-align: middle\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/play.svg#fixme\" alt=\"Play Audio\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" border=\"0\" \/> Yo tengo una computadora nueva.<\/a><\/span><\/td>\r\n<td><img title=\"tengo una computadora nueva\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2922\/2015\/09\/S1L4p004.jpg\" alt=\"guy taking a computer out of a box\" \/><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><span class=\"translation\" title=\"My sister has a Peruvian boyfriend.\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/l4_leccion4\/webcontent\/S1L4S073.mp3\" target=\"audio\"><img style=\"vertical-align: middle\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/play.svg#fixme\" alt=\"Play Audio\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" border=\"0\" \/> Mi hermana tiene un novio peruano.<\/a><\/span><\/td>\r\n<td><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><span class=\"translation\" title=\"We have a good Spanish professor.\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/l4_leccion4\/webcontent\/S1L4S074.mp3\" target=\"audio\"><img style=\"vertical-align: middle\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/play.svg#fixme\" alt=\"Play Audio\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" border=\"0\" \/> Nosotros tenemos un buen profesor de espa\u00f1ol.<\/a><\/span><\/td>\r\n<td><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><span class=\"translation\" title=\"Do you have my keys?\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/l4_leccion4\/webcontent\/S1L4S075.mp3\" target=\"audio\"><img style=\"vertical-align: middle\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/play.svg#fixme\" alt=\"Play Audio\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" border=\"0\" \/> \u00bfTienes mis llaves?<\/a><\/span><\/td>\r\n<td><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3><\/h3>\r\n<h1><\/h1>\r\n<h2><b>Usos del verbo tener: edad<\/b><\/h2>\r\nAs you learned in the \"Funciones\" section, another very common usage of <span class=\"foreign\">tener<\/span> is to express the age of people. While English uses the verb \"to be,\" Spanish uses \"to have.\"\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><span class=\"translation\" title=\"I am twenty years old.\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/l4_leccion4\/webcontent\/S1L4S077.mp3\" target=\"audio\"><img style=\"vertical-align: middle\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/play.svg#fixme\" alt=\"Play Audio\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" border=\"0\" \/> Yo tengo veinte a\u00f1os.<\/a><\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span class=\"translation\" title=\"My boyfriend is twenty-eight.\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/l4_leccion4\/webcontent\/S1L4S078.mp3\" target=\"audio\"><img style=\"vertical-align: middle\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/play.svg#fixme\" alt=\"Play Audio\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" border=\"0\" \/> Mi novio tiene veintiocho a\u00f1os.<\/a><\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span class=\"translation\" title=\"The Venezuelan man is forty.\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/l4_leccion4\/webcontent\/S1L4S079.mp3\" target=\"audio\"><img style=\"vertical-align: middle\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/play.svg#fixme\" alt=\"Play Audio\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" border=\"0\" \/> El hombre venezolano tiene cuarenta a\u00f1os.<\/a><\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b>Usos del verbo tener: posesi\u00f3n<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>The verb <span class=\"foreign\">tener<\/span> in Spanish means &#8220;to have.&#8221; Similar to the verbs you have just seen, <span class=\"foreign\">tener<\/span> does not follow the pattern of regular \u2013<em>er<\/em> verbs and is irregular in the <span class=\"foreign\">yo<\/span> form of the verb. Below you can see the conjugation of <span class=\"foreign\">tener<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table id=\"N118F7_bx\" class=\"conjugation labeled\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>tener \u2013 to have (tiempo presente)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table class=\"conjugation\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><\/th>\n<th><span class=\"foreign\">singular<\/span><\/th>\n<th><span class=\"foreign\">plural<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>1<sup>a<\/sup><\/th>\n<td><a id=\"_i_0\" class=\"pronunciation\" title=\"Click to listen\"><\/a><span class=\"pronouns\">yo<\/span> tengo<\/td>\n<td><a id=\"_i_1\" class=\"pronunciation\" title=\"Click to listen\"><\/a><span class=\"pronouns\">nosotros<\/span> tenemos<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>2<sup>a<\/sup><\/th>\n<td><a id=\"_i_2\" class=\"pronunciation\" title=\"Click to listen\"><\/a><span class=\"pronouns\">t\u00fa<\/span> tienes<\/td>\n<td><a id=\"_i_3\" class=\"pronunciation\" title=\"Click to listen\"><\/a><span class=\"pronouns\">vosotros<\/span> ten\u00e9is<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>3<sup>a<\/sup><\/th>\n<td><a id=\"_i_4\" class=\"pronunciation\" title=\"Click to listen\"><\/a><span class=\"pronouns\">\u00e9l\/ella\/usted<\/span> tiene<\/td>\n<td><a id=\"_i_5\" class=\"pronunciation\" title=\"Click to listen\"><\/a><span class=\"pronouns\">ellos\/ellas\/ustedes<\/span> tienen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of the principal uses of <em><span class=\"foreign\">tener<\/span><\/em> is to express possession, just as we do with the verb &#8220;to have&#8221; in English.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"translation\" title=\"I have a new computer.\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/l4_leccion4\/webcontent\/S1L4S072.mp3\" target=\"audio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/play.svg#fixme\" alt=\"Play Audio\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" border=\"0\" \/> Yo tengo una computadora nueva.<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"tengo una computadora nueva\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2922\/2015\/09\/S1L4p004.jpg\" alt=\"guy taking a computer out of a box\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"translation\" title=\"My sister has a Peruvian boyfriend.\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/l4_leccion4\/webcontent\/S1L4S073.mp3\" target=\"audio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/play.svg#fixme\" alt=\"Play Audio\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" border=\"0\" \/> Mi hermana tiene un novio peruano.<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"translation\" title=\"We have a good Spanish professor.\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/l4_leccion4\/webcontent\/S1L4S074.mp3\" target=\"audio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/play.svg#fixme\" alt=\"Play Audio\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" border=\"0\" \/> Nosotros tenemos un buen profesor de espa\u00f1ol.<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"translation\" title=\"Do you have my keys?\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/l4_leccion4\/webcontent\/S1L4S075.mp3\" target=\"audio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/play.svg#fixme\" alt=\"Play Audio\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" border=\"0\" \/> \u00bfTienes mis llaves?<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h2><b>Usos del verbo tener: edad<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>As you learned in the &#8220;Funciones&#8221; section, another very common usage of <span class=\"foreign\">tener<\/span> is to express the age of people. While English uses the verb &#8220;to be,&#8221; Spanish uses &#8220;to have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"translation\" title=\"I am twenty years old.\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/l4_leccion4\/webcontent\/S1L4S077.mp3\" target=\"audio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/play.svg#fixme\" alt=\"Play Audio\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" border=\"0\" \/> Yo tengo veinte a\u00f1os.<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"translation\" title=\"My boyfriend is twenty-eight.\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/l4_leccion4\/webcontent\/S1L4S078.mp3\" target=\"audio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/play.svg#fixme\" alt=\"Play Audio\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" border=\"0\" \/> Mi novio tiene veintiocho a\u00f1os.<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"translation\" title=\"The Venezuelan man is forty.\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/l4_leccion4\/webcontent\/S1L4S079.mp3\" target=\"audio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/textimgs\/olispanish1\/play.svg#fixme\" alt=\"Play Audio\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" border=\"0\" \/> El hombre venezolano tiene cuarenta a\u00f1os.<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-333\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Lesson 4: Estructuras gramaticales. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Open Learning Initiative. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Carnegie Mellon. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/oli.cmu.edu\/jcourse\/lms\/students\/syllabus.do?section=037856eb80020ca6007833f93f06cd13\">https:\/\/oli.cmu.edu\/jcourse\/lms\/students\/syllabus.do?section=037856eb80020ca6007833f93f06cd13<\/a>. <strong>Project<\/strong>: Spanish1. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC-ND: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives <\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":9,"menu_order":3,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Lesson 4: Estructuras gramaticales\",\"author\":\"Open Learning Initiative\",\"organization\":\"Carnegie Mellon\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/oli.cmu.edu\/jcourse\/lms\/students\/syllabus.do?section=037856eb80020ca6007833f93f06cd13\",\"project\":\"Spanish1\",\"license\":\"cc-by-nc-nd\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-333","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":1728,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2555,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/333\/revisions\/2555"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/1728"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/333\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}