tenía

A1Rank #173

I had, he/she had (imperfect form of tener)

Part of speech
verb
Frequency rank
#173 of 5,000

Tenía dos hermanos.

He had two brothers.

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"tenía" in example sentences

"tenía" appears in 1,158 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.

Él no tenía nada.

He had nothing.

Tatoeba #10923596

Ella no tenía nada.

She had nothing.

Tatoeba #10923598

Eso no es todo lo que tenía que hacer.

That's not all I had to do.

Tatoeba #10128870

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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