Tenía vs Había

Question

From an on-line news article -- Las autoridades dijeron que el vuelo 5124 aterrizó alrededor de las 6:20 de la tarde del lunes, poco después de que el piloto se aproximara para aterrizar como lo tenía planeado y descubriera un problema en el tren de aterrizaje.

Why is it tenía planeado and not había planeado?

Good question! I am wondering too since I see both used. - NikkiLR, Feb 28, 2012

I did find this, though -- http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=809911 - NikkiLR, Feb 28, 2012

Answer 1

I am wondering too....

My guess is that it is just the past perfect (had planned) vs tener planeado... So perhaps it has a slightly different meaning.

I was looking around and I found that: tener intención de, tener pensamiento de and tener proyectado are all synonyms of tener planeado.

So, if "tener planeado" and "tener intención de" are the same, then you could probably translate "como lo tenía planeado" to "as he intended (planned)". But again, this is just my guess.

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Got this from linguee.es:

Inicialmente, tenía planeado rodar una quinta historia sobre un italiano en Estocolmo, pero no había presupuesto y la película [...] / I initially intended to film a fifth story about an Italian in Stockholm but there was no budget for this and the film would have been too long.

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Además, el INDECOPI tenía planeado ampliar su red para llegar a 24 regiones, pues hasta ese momento sólo estaba [...] / Furthermore, INDECOPI planned to widen its network in order to reach 24 regions; so far it had covered 10 regions.

Thanks NikkiRivera for both your answer and comment! - cdunn3, Feb 28, 2012

No problem :) I hope you get another answer soon. - NikkiLR, Feb 28, 2012

For some reason the post is messed up... If you go to linguee.es all you have to do is type in a phrase and you will get results in both Spanish and English. Here I just typed in "tenía planeado". - NikkiLR, Feb 28, 2012

Answer 2

seems like they both mean the same thing just saying it two different ways.

como lo tenía planeado= he had it planned había planeado= as was planned in this case either one could be used, they just chose one.

Answer 3

• Tenía = I had

• Había = There was, or once upon... (Like, once upon a time...= Había una vez...)

• But in your case, I guess they both translate the same! Había planeado, or Tenía planeado.

But... (Yo) había planeado= I had planned. I think that is why they are confused. - NikkiLR, Feb 28, 2012

Hmm, weird! You are right! - farallon7, Feb 28, 2012