Uso del verbo haber

Question

Como debo explicar el verbo haber a los estudiantes norteamericanos. How should I teach the verb haber to Amarican students.?

Answer 1

Are they English speakers learning Spanish or Spanish speakers learning English?

Haber is used as an auxilliry verb.

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Perfect! Thank you. - brosentangle, Oct 2, 2014

Spot on! - jphip, Oct 2, 2014

:) - Joydeep_Singh, Oct 2, 2014

Answer 2

Yes as Ian suggested, it is primarily used as an auxiliary verb which in that particular role is equal to the english have (when it is used as an aux) ..

For example ,,, I have done my assignment.. Yo he hecho mi tarea. Have you completed your homework ... Has terminado tus deberes.

So as you must have noticed from the examples above that as an auxilary it is used to form the compound tenses .. exactly the way "have" is used in English ..

But besides this use, there are other uses of Haber too .. Like ,, to indicate the existence of something .. we use "hay" (which is a special conjugation of haber) ... hay dos chicos en este clase y lo demas son chicas ,, hay una tienda de ropas en mi barrio .. .. which in english equates to "there is" or habia una tienda (there used to be a shop) etc.

and it is used in expression "haber de" which has the same meaning as "tener que" .. which means "to have to" ... for example .. ya tengo que irme, hasta la mañana// i have to leave now ,, see you tomorrow... or he de irme ahora ...

these are the uses of haber that i can think of right now

Be careful, friend, you threw in a few "i's" for "I" in your post. - Jubilado, Oct 2, 2014

Sorry sir, I have an infection between my fingers so am not being able to write properly :( - Joydeep_Singh, Oct 2, 2014

Answer 3

Thank you Ian

She is an English speaker learning Spanish. I am an English Tutor, I am not a teacher. So, I want to teach her the verb haber en Spanish for example:

Presente Yo he Tu has el ha nos hemos uds han ellos han

yo hube

You are right!! This is an auxiliary.

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Answer 4

Thank you!!! Your answer helped a lot