Do you say "tienes paciencia" or "eres paciente"?

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Answer 1

Welcome to the forum happylilhale,
You would say "Tienes paciencia" for "you have patience" you could also say "perder la paciencia" meaning "to lose patience". Anyway, I hope this helps and again welcome to the forum!!

You can use either form, Jason: using tener or ser please follow my link to Heidi's post :) - FELIZ77, May 8, 2011

Answer 2

By the way happylilhale, take some time to look around and get to know the site. It's a great way to meet people and learn Spanish!! Here is a helpful link...Iza's Links to SD

Answer 3

You can either use the verb tener or ser

You can say tienes paciencia or eres paciente

I was fairly sure you could use either construction and I was able to find a post created by Heidi our chief administrator who is a native speaker who confirms this for me through the pictorial illustration showing uses of ser and estar The Ser examples include the use of Ser to describe characteristics like Paralee mentions in her teachings: Ser v Estar

Here is a link:

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If you look at the heading Ser in the cartoon (pictorial illustration) and look down the list to where character is:

it gives the example : Jaime es paciente and es is from the verb Ser so if you can say

Jaime es paciente you can certainly say: eres paciente

I hope that helps