Translating is not sometimes effective in English. Here you have some examples :
- To be eighteen years old
to have eighteen years old: tener dieciocho años - To be hungry
to have hunger: tener hambre - To be thirsty
to have thirst: tener sed - To be successful
to have success: tener éxito - To be unsuccessful
not to have success: no tener éxito - To be careful
to have care: tener cuidado - To be envious
to have envy: tener envidia - To be afraid
to have fear: tener miedo - To be right
to have reason: tener razón - To be wrong
not to have reason: no tener razón/equivocarse - To be lucky
to have luck: tener suerte - To be unlucky
not to have luck: no tener suerte/tener mala suerte - To be sleepy
to have dream: tener sueño - To be cold
to have cold: tener frío - To be hot
to have heat: tener calor - To be logical
to have logic: tener lógica - To be illogical
not to have logic: no tener lógica - To be tricky
to have trick: tener truco/tener trampa - To be in trouble/to have a problem: tener problemas
- To be in pain
to have pain: tener dolor - To be in control
to have control: tener control
As seen in the previous examples, the verb 'to be' is
used since we are not dealing with possession: we don't possess the age or the hunger.
Spanish seems illogical in that aspect.
The verb 'to be' in English can sometimes replace the
verb 'hacer' in Spanish:
- It's cold
it does cold: hace frío - It's hot
it does heat: hace calor - it's sunny
it does sun: hace sol - it's windy
it does wind: hace viento
The verb 'to be' is also used to replace other verbs
in Spanish. This is used with the structure: subject + verb 'to be' + number +
measure unit + adjective (the same structure used to talk about our age):
- I am two metres
tall: mido dos metros.
- This building is forty metres high:
este edificio mide cuarenta metros.
- the lake is two
metres deep: el lago mide dos metros de profundidad.
- my house is twenty
metres long: mi casa mide veinte metros de largo.
- this car is 200
kilometres fast: este coche va a 200 kilómetros hora.
- my computer is one
hundred centimetres wide: mi ordenador mide doscientos
centímetros de ancho.
- the station is two
kilometres far from my house: la estación está a dos kilómetros de mi
casa/dista dos kilómetros de mi casa.
- my fridge is minus
twenty degrees cold: el frigorífico tiene una temperatura de
menos veinte grados
OK, I hope you can learn some of these expressions.
Enjoy it.
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