Today we're going to have a new way to say have.

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I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish.

Today we're going to learn another verb, the verb for to have.

We already learned the verb, A as the version of to have that puts things in the past. But what about this sentence?

They have something. This isn't putting something in the past. This is what we call

possession, or simply having something.

The thing after have is a noun, exchangeable with food. They have food. So today's verb is

tenner, spelled T-E-N-E-R. For example, I am going to have something.

I'm really excited that we're learning this verb because it's one of the simplest ways to start

using our direct objects in full Spanish sentences.

For example, instead of Algo, we can change this sentence simply to use any of our direct objects.

I am going to have it.

I am going to have them. It is a little weird to have them.

It is a little weird to use this verb with pronouns that represent people, such as me and te and nos, but it does work in certain contexts,

such as we haven't had her here with us since last year, or they have us here late on Thursdays.

And from a purely grammatical standpoint, direct objects and

Tener get along with each other really well. Tener's participle follows the same pattern

that we've learned for some other verbs. Ser becomes Cido, Ir becomes Ido, and

Tener becomes tenido.

For example, we have had this house for a while.

Let's learn the present tense conjugations of Tenner, the words for I have, they have, and so on.

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