Conversations: 'estar', 'ser', 'tener' singular persons
I can ask and answer questions using singular 'estar', 'ser' and 'tener' about things that I or someone else has.
Conversations: 'estar', 'ser', 'tener' singular persons
I can ask and answer questions using singular 'estar', 'ser' and 'tener' about things that I or someone else has.
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Key learning points
- Raise your voice at the end of a statement to ask a yes/no question with tener. ‘¿Tienes …?’ is ‘Do you have?
- Qué means what; to ask ‘What do you have?’ use ‘¿Qué tienes?’
- Unas is 'some' for plural feminine nouns; unos is ‘some’ for plural masculine nouns.
- Conversations involve careful listening and knowing vocabulary securely, especially key verbs estar, ser, and tener.
Keywords
Tener - to have, having
Qué - Spanish question word 'what'
Unas - 'some' for plural feminine nouns
Unos - 'some' for plural masculine nouns
Common misconception
Spanish needs a word for 'do' in questions: 'Do you have?' and 'What do you have?'
Spanish questions are easy to form. Yes/no questions have the same words as statements; to make a question you raise the pitch of your voice. Information questions just add a question word, e.g. 'qué?' in front of the verb.
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Exit quiz
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