In past tense: estar/haber
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I'm confused in the past tense when to use haber as opposed to estar. I am writing my lesson for my next weeks spanish class, and I want to say "there was an attack." I thought I should use estar, but when I double check my resources, they are telling me to use haber. What is haber denoting that estar is not?
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updated Apr 14, 2012
posted by FayRay1
Wow...thanks...that really clears it up for me! - FayRay1, Nov 3, 2009
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when you use haber, you are saying 'there is/are/was/were'. The word 'there' is already in haber, so when you want to say that 'there was something' or 'there is something' you use haber
updated Nov 3, 2009
posted by emily8
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Hubo ataque.
updated Nov 3, 2009
posted by Rey_Mysterio
