The verb tener means ‘to have’. Tener is an irregular verb. There are some common expressions in Spanish that use tener (to have) where in English the verb ‘to be’ would be used.

An infinitive is the ‘to’ form of a verb, for example to play, to watch, to be. In Spanish infinitives end in ar, er or ir. Use the infinitive to give opinions, after modal verbs, and with ...

The direct object in our sample sentence “Matt eats pizza” is pizza. Matt eats what? Pizza. An indirect object tells us to whom or for whom an action is done. To understand this concept, we need to ...

Different verbs take different types of complements and assign them to various positions. Two that we will consider here are ergative and unaccusative verbs. The basic one each assign a single ...