| Hola! Soy Brenda, tu profesora de español. |
| Today, we’re going to talk about 10 different phrases that we use with el verbo tener. |
| El verbo tener, as you may or may not know, it’s a… it means “to have” in English and it’s a verb that we use to talk about possession mostly and it’s the same way that we use it in English to talk about possessions. |
| For example… |
| Tengo 3 hermanos. |
| “I have 3 brothers.” |
| Now, there are some differences between Spanish and English, but sometimes we use el verbo tener, the verb “to have” in Spanish and we use a completely different verb for these expressions that I’m going to share with you today in English, we use the verb “to be.” |
| 1.tener with años |
| So we are going to use el verbo tener in Spanish to talk about age. |
| So in English, we would say “I am…” and then however old you are. |
| In Spanish, we cannot say that we possess years in Spanish and we’re gonna use the verb “to have” and say “you have this many years.” I know it doesn’t make a lot of sense in English, but that’s the way that we use it in Spanish. |
| Por ejemplo… |
| Tengo 34 años. |
| ¿Cuántos años tienes? |
| “How old are you?” |
| 2. tengo hambre |
| Tengo hambre means “I am hungry.” |
| So we use el verbo tener here again which means “to have” to say that we are hungry. |
| “I have hunger” would be the literal translation which doesn’t make any sense in English, but it does in Spanish. We have to remember to use the verb “to have” tener, when we talk about hunger in Spanish. |
| Tengo hambre. |
| ¿Tienes hambre? |
| 3. Tengo sed. |
| So we talked about hambre before and it’s the same thing with thirst. En español, we’re going to use the verb tener “to have,” to talk about thirst. So if you want to say, “I am thirsty,” you have to say… |
| Tengo sed. |
| ¿Tienes sed? |
| 4. Tengo miedo a... |
| So we use this phrase to talk about fear and when we want to say, “I am scared about (something),” we have to use this expression with the verbo tener en español. So we have to say, tengo miedo a… and then you can use any nouns, any sustantivos. |
| Por ejemplo, remember, you have to use the article before the noun here, so we’ll say… |
| Tengo miedo a las arañas. |
| Tengo miedo a los tiburones. |
| Or, you can say… you can use a verb if you are scared of an activity. |
| For example… |
| Tengo miedo a bucear. |
| 5. Tengo sueño. |
| Tengo sueño. |
| Tengo sueño means “I am sleepy.” |
| Tengo sueño. “I am sleepy.” |
| So again, we use this expression when, for example, we are in class and then you’re very sleepy, you probably didn’t have a great-night sleep, so you can say and use this expression, tengo sueño. |
| Now be careful. Some of my students use it in the plural form, tengo sueños and in that case, sueños would mean “dream” so “I have dreams,” right? So in this case, it is a possession. We’re talking about the dreams that you have, kind of like goals, but if you want to say that you’re sleeping then use it in the singular form, tengo sueño. |
| 6. Tengo prisa. |
| Tengo prisa. |
| Tener prisa significa “to be in a hurry.” |
| So, “I am in a hurry,” would be tengo prisa “I am in a hurry.” |
| So use this expression, for example, when you’re going to work and you’re running a little bit late or when you’re going to the airport to catch a plane, if you’re going to a meeting or to the gym. Anything that implies a schedule and you’re running a little bit late, you can use this expression… |
| Tengo prisa. |
| Yeah, so for example if you’re running to someone in the middle of the street as you’re going or getting late to a different location, you can say… |
| Lo siento, tengo prisa. |
| “I’m sorry, I’m in a hurry. I have to go.” |
| 7. tener calor “to be hot” |
| Tener calor significa “to be hot,” but not saying like, “Oh, I’m good looking. Oh yeah.” No, no, no. |
| Tener calor significa in terms of the weather and the temperature when it’s hot. I think in English, you say, “Oh, I’m hot, I’m hot,” sometimes I think we say more like “it’s hot” as a… to talk about the weather and not yourself, right? |
| So tengo calor significa, “it’s hot,” I am actually hot, it’s really hot. |
| 8. tener frío |
| Tener frío significa “to be cold,” which is the opposite of the previous one that we said before, we talked about, tener calor. Tener frío es lo opuesto. So tener frío is the opposite of tener calor. |
| So tener frío is the same. We use it to talk about the weather and how it makes you feel this temperature and we say… |
| Tengo frío. |
| “I am cold.” |
| 9. tener ganas de |
| Tener ganas de is an expression that we use in Spanish and it means to feel like doing something. We don’t even use the verb “to be” for this one. It’s to feel like doing something. |
| Por ejemplo and remember, because we have a preposition here in Spanish, ganas de, we are going to use a verb in the infinitive form after the preposition, so we can say, for example… |
| Tengo ganas de ira al cine. |
| “I feel like going to the movies.” |
| Tengo ganas de bailar salsa. |
| “I feel like dancing salsa.” |
| Tengo ganas de hablar y estudiar español. |
| “I feel like talking and studying Spanish.” |
| Etcetera. |
| You can just pretty much use any verb in the infinitive form to talk about what you feel like with the verb tener in Spanish. |
| tener ganas de… |
| tengo ganas de… |
| Finally, the last expression with the verb tener en español that I’m going to teach you today is... |
| 10. tener dolor de |
| tener dolor de |
| So this expression means “to be sore / to hurt” in some part of your body, tener dolor de. |
| So, por ejemplo, vamos a ver algunos ejemplos “let’s have a look at some examples…” |
| Tener dolor de cabeza. |
| “To have a headache.” |
| Tener dolor de estómago. |
| “To have a stomachache.” |
| Tener dolor de muela. |
| “To have a toothache.” |
| Etcetera. |
| Muy bien, esas son 10 expresiones con el verbo tener en español. |
| Those are the 10 phrases with the verb tener that I want to share with you today. |
| Muchas gracias por ver esta lección y nos vemos en la próxima clases. |
| “Thank you so much for watching this lesson and I will see you next class.” |
| ¡Adiós! |
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