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I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

Today we're going to learn one of the Spanish words for to have.

I say one of because we use the verb to have to mean multiple things in English. For example,

I have a book. In this case, the term have indicates possession of some type. I have a book.

Now check out this sentence. I have eaten. Am I talking about possession here? No, I'm just

talking about something I've done. It's kind of like saying I ate. In the first example,

have is putting the verb eat in the past to mean something very similar to I ate.

Spanish has two different verbs for to have. One is used for possession and the other is used

for having done something or putting a verb in the past. Today we're learning the version that

puts things in the past. You can generally

tell if that's what you're dealing with by using the eaten test. If you see have or has in English,

see if there's a verb after it that's a lot like eaten. For example, which type of have are we dealing with in this sentence? I have been a student.

This is putting the verb ser in the past using the word sida. We learned this in episode 32 as the

participle, which is an unconjugated version of a verb that's used to put things in the past.

Here are some more examples of participles being used.

They have found it.

She has been here.

We have eaten.

It has left. In each case, the have or has verb is a form of today's verb,

a bear, spelled H-A-B-E-R. Abber means to have specifically for putting things in the past. We have five forms of this to learn,

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