52: How to say "had" in Spanish
LearnCraft Spanish
Timothy Moser
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The Spanish verb Tener has a lot of conjugations — let's learn the many ways this verb is used, including the preterite, imperfect past tense, future, and subjunctive. We'll also get a lot of spoken practice using Tener in context.
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| 0:00.0 | Today, we're going to tener the rest of Tener. |
| 0:07.2 | Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish. |
| 0:17.2 | Let's learn all the rest of our important tenses and moods of Tener, including the past, future, |
| 0:24.5 | and subjunctive. To begin with, we're going to learn both the predurate and the imperfect past |
| 0:30.8 | tenses, because they're actually both quite common for Tener, although the imperfect is a bit more |
| 0:36.8 | common. First of all, the imperfect forms all |
| 0:41.2 | stress the syllable, me. So, I had is tenia. He, she, it, or Usted had, is also tenia. |
| 0:53.3 | You had is tenias, they had is Tenian, and we had is Teniyamos. If you're using |
| 1:03.1 | memory palaces to memorize these conjugations, which is what we recommend, imagine that you |
| 1:08.4 | and your friends are at the Tenor Toy Shop, and at the checkout area, |
| 1:13.7 | there are toys that are hanging from the ceiling so far down that you have to crawl on your |
| 1:19.3 | hands and knees to get past them. This ends up hurting your knees a bit because of lots of littered |
| 1:25.9 | toy fragments on the floor. |
| 1:29.1 | Either way, let's look at some ways we can use this general purpose past tense before we |
| 1:34.9 | learn the preterate. What did you have there? |
| 1:43.3 | What did youias there? |
| 1:47.5 | What tenias there? |
| 1:51.6 | In the next one, them is feminine. |
| 1:55.5 | She had them. |
| 2:20.3 | She was them. She was they had that. They always had that. Sienpre tenierm. |
| 2:25.3 | How did we have this? |
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