{"id":1911,"date":"2019-04-10T15:05:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T15:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pocketlearningspanish.com\/inicio\/?p=653"},"modified":"2019-10-12T22:40:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T22:40:13","slug":"espanol-tener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/es\/blog\/espanol-tener\/","title":{"rendered":"Ser vs. Tener: La batalla de los verbos"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?--><p>Los verbos espa\u00f1oles <em>ser<\/em> (ser) y <em>tener<\/em> (tener) son dos de los verbos m\u00e1s utilizados en la lengua. Si acabas de aprender espa\u00f1ol, te habr\u00e1s dado cuenta de que tienes que utilizarlos desde el primer d\u00eda: <em>\u00a1Hola! <strong>S<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>oy<\/strong> Miriam y <strong>tengo<\/strong> 14 a\u00f1os (Hi! I\u2019m Miriam and I\u2019m 14 years old).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sin embargo, aunque muy distintivos a primera vista, uno puede darse cuenta de que lo que puede expresarse con uno de estos verbos en una lengua no tiene por qu\u00e9 traspasar necesariamente las aguas internacionales.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents-pro\"><a href=\"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/es\/blog\/falsos-amigos\/\" class=\"template-4\"><img width=\"250\" height=\"159\" src=\"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CONVERSA-false-friends.png\" class=\"alignleft wp-post-image\" alt=\"CONVERSA espa\u00f1ol ingl\u00e9s falsos amigos\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CONVERSA-false-friends.png 825w, https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CONVERSA-false-friends-600x382.png 600w, https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CONVERSA-false-friends-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CONVERSA-false-friends-768x489.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\"><div class=\"postTitle\"><span><strong>Leer m\u00e1s<\/strong>V\u00eddeo: Falsos amigos espa\u00f1ol-ingl\u00e9s<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div><p>This is the case with \u2018to be\u2019 in English and <em>tener<\/em> en espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n<p>So, what do I mean, exactly? Let\u2019s first look at <em>tener<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><i>Verbo espa\u00f1ol: Tener<\/i><\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents-pro\"><a href=\"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/es\/onlineactivities\/conjugaciones-verbales\/\" class=\"template-4\"><img width=\"250\" height=\"159\" src=\"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/CONVERSA-CONJUGATE-SPANISH-VERBS-IN-PRESENT.png\" class=\"alignleft wp-post-image\" alt=\"CONVERSA CONJUGA VERBOS ESPA\u00d1OLES EN PRESENTE\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/CONVERSA-CONJUGATE-SPANISH-VERBS-IN-PRESENT.png 825w, https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/CONVERSA-CONJUGATE-SPANISH-VERBS-IN-PRESENT-600x382.png 600w, https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/CONVERSA-CONJUGATE-SPANISH-VERBS-IN-PRESENT-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/CONVERSA-CONJUGATE-SPANISH-VERBS-IN-PRESENT-768x489.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\"><div class=\"postTitle\"><span><strong>Leer m\u00e1s<\/strong>Actividad en l\u00ednea: Conjugar verbos espa\u00f1oles en presente<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div><p>Dependiendo de tu nivel de espa\u00f1ol, puede que sepas o no que los verbos pueden ser regulares o irregulares. \u00bfQu\u00e9 significa esto? Bueno, resumiendo: que o bien mantienen su forma principal sin importar el tiempo verbal o bien hacen lo que les da la gana.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tener<\/em> plays for the irregular team. Yup, it\u2019s one of those. Anyway, here\u2019s a reminder of what the present tense looks like:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3906 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/CONVERSA-To-Be-vs-To-Have-Battle-of-the-Verbs-300x240.png\" alt=\"CONVERSA Ser vs Tener: La batalla de los verbos\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/CONVERSA-To-Be-vs-To-Have-Battle-of-the-Verbs-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/CONVERSA-To-Be-vs-To-Have-Battle-of-the-Verbs-600x480.png 600w, https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/CONVERSA-To-Be-vs-To-Have-Battle-of-the-Verbs-768x614.png 768w, https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/CONVERSA-To-Be-vs-To-Have-Battle-of-the-Verbs.png 945w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Cases of English \u2018To Be\u2019 = Spanish \u2018Tener\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>There are many cases in which the verb \u201cto be\u201d is translated as <em>tener\u00a0<\/em>in Spanish, so it is common for language learners on either side to mistake the two. Have you ever heard a native Spanish speaker try their best at English and go: \u201cI have 18 years\u201d? They don\u2019t mean years left to live, obviously (TMI much?), but how old they are.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s look at the most common uses of <em>tener<\/em> that would correspond to the verb \u2018to be\u2019 in English:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tener ___ a\u00f1os \u2013<\/strong> tener ___ a\u00f1os<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tener hambre\u00a0\u2013<\/strong> tener hambre<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tener sed\u00a0\u2013<\/strong> tener sed<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tener calor\u00a0\u2013<\/strong> tener\/sentir calor<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tener fr\u00edo\u00a0\u2013<\/strong> tener\/sentir fr\u00edo<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tener cuidado\u00a0\u2013<\/strong> tener cuidado<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tener miedo \u2013<\/strong> tener miedo<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tener prisa\u00a0\u2013<\/strong> tener prisa<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tener raz\u00f3n\u00a0\u2013<\/strong> tener raz\u00f3n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tener sue\u00f1o\u00a0\u2013<\/strong> tener sue\u00f1o<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tener suerte\u00a0\u2013<\/strong> tener suerte<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tener dolor \u2013<\/strong> tener dolor<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tener la culpa \u2013<\/strong> ser culpable<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tener \u00e9xito \u2013<\/strong> tener \u00e9xito<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A veces, sin embargo, las mismas frases pueden traducirse de dos maneras diferentes, como por ejemplo\u00a0<em>ser paciente vs tener paciencia (to be patient vs to have patience).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So? Would you have ever thought that you could say \u2018I have hunger\u2019 or \u2018I have hurry\u2019 and not sound absolutely ridiculous? Well, now you can! It only goes to show that learning a new language only broadens your mind.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>\u00bfNo hay suficiente espa\u00f1ol para hoy?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Si quieres aprender a hablar espa\u00f1ol o quieres mejorar tu nivel de espa\u00f1ol, \u00a1empieza ahora mismo! Haz esta actividad en l\u00ednea y descubre otros usos de los verbos <em>ser<\/em> y\u00a0<em>tener<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0px; width: 100%; height: 500px;\" src=\"https:\/\/learningapps.org\/watch?v=ppjrkz6pn18\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish verbs ser (to be) and tener (to have) are two of the most frequently-used verbs in the language. If you have recently taken up Spanish, you may have noticed that you kind of have to use them from day one: \u00a1Hola! Soy Miriam y tengo 14 a\u00f1os (Hi! I\u2019m Miriam and I\u2019m 14 [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,7,30,97],"tags":[21,75,12,105,106],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a1","category-blog","category-grammar","category-spanish","tag-conversation","tag-learn-spanish-online","tag-online-activity","tag-practice-spanish-skills","tag-tener-vs-ser"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/CONVERSA-To-Be-vs-To-Have-Battle-of-the-Verbs-cover.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}