tener
A1Rank #168to have; to possess
- Part of speech
- verb
- Frequency rank
- #168 of 5,000
Conjugate tener - all tenses →
El estadio es enorme. Puede tener una capacidad de hasta cien mil espectadores.
The stadium is huge. It can hold up to one hundred thousand spectators.
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