When "to be" means "tener" in Spanish | A Coffee Break with Pablo
Coffee Break Spanish
Radio Lingua Network
4.4 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Join Pablo from the Coffee Break Spanish team in another useful little espresso lesson. ☕
In this episode, he explores a set of everyday expressions that use “to be” in English but “tener” in Spanish. You’ll learn to say things like:
❄️ tener frío
🍽 tener hambre
💪 tener razón
and much more!
These are super common expressions that every learner needs, perfect for sounding more natural in daily conversations!
➡️ Want more bite-sized Spanish lessons? Subscribe to the Coffee Break Spanish newsletter and get new content straight to your inbox!
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello, good. |
| 0:02.0 | What's how? |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Pablo of Coffee Break Spaness, |
| 0:05.0 | and today is my turn to |
| 0:07.0 | to take a little |
| 0:08.0 | coffee with you. |
| 0:10.0 | Well, I hope you're keeping warm. |
| 0:12.0 | Winter has definitely arrived in Scotland |
| 0:14.0 | and all this cold weather |
| 0:16.0 | actually inspired today's mini lesson. |
| 0:19.0 | Prepared because weday's mini-lossom. The other day, a friend of Spaniola, me visit in Glasgow. We went to dinner own some friends Scocese and when |
| 0:38.0 | we were |
| 0:39.1 | in the |
| 0:40.7 | she said |
| 0:42.4 | in English |
| 0:43.2 | I have cold |
| 0:45.2 | this made me |
| 0:46.8 | smile a lot |
| 0:47.4 | because of course |
| 0:48.5 | what she meant was |
| 0:49.9 | I am cold |
| 0:51.1 | because it was |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Radio Lingua Network, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Radio Lingua Network and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.