había

A1Rank #171

there was; there were; I/he/she had (imperfect form of haber)

Part of speech
verb
Frequency rank
#171 of 5,000

Había mucha gente en la plaza.

There were a lot of people in the square.

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"había" in example sentences

"había" appears in 1,278 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.

¿Había algo así?

Was there such a thing?

Tatoeba #858707

Había algo más.

There was something else.

Tatoeba #13549489

Había alguien en la casa.

Somebody was in the house.

Tatoeba #2110476

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