Learn how to ask about your possessions
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| Hola a todos! Soy Lucia. Hi everybody! I’m Lucia. |
| Welcome to SpanishPod101.com’s Español en tres minutos. The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn Spanish. |
| In the last lesson, we learned how to talk about age using the verb tener, “to have.” |
| You can probably guess that tener can also be used to talk about things you own. That will be the topic of this lesson. |
| ¿Tienes coche? “Do you have a car?” |
| [slowly] ¿Tienes carro? |
| Let’s take a closer look at this question. |
| Tienes, means “Do you have”. You can see that tener has been changed to tienes. |
| And then we have carro, which means “car”. |
| So if your answer to the question is “Yes, I do” or “I have a car”, how can you say it in Spanish? |
| Just turn the verb tener into the 1st person — it’s really simple! You did it during the last lesson to talk about your age, remember? |
| The first person of tener is "Tengo"... |
| So in this case we reply: |
| Si, tengo carro or Tengo carro. |
| [slowly] Si, tengo carro. |
| Tengo coche. |
| You can say "Si", but it's not necessary because your reply is already affirmative. |
| Now it’s time for Lucia’s Insights. |
| If you want to ask for something that you think someone has, you can use this way. Here’s an example. |
| Tienes perro, no? This literally means “You have a dog, right?” or |
| “You have a dog, don't’ you?” |
| You only have to add the word no after the sentence. It makes the whole sentence sound like a question, even if you know or can guess the answer. |
| In recent lessons, we have learned about the verbs ser/estar, “to be”, and tener, “to have”. |
| Next time we’ll learn how to use these two verbs in their negative forms in order to say “I’m not” and “I don’t have”. |
| Do you know how to turn a verb into the negative form in Spanish? I'll be waiting for you with the answer in the next Español en 3 minutos. |
| Hasta la próxima!! |
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