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tenían

A2Rank #1107

they had (imperfect form of tener)

Part of speech
verb
Frequency rank
#1107 of 5,000

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"tenían" in example sentences

"tenían" appears in 83 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.

Han hecho lo que tenían que hacer.

They've done what they had to do.

Tatoeba #10067080

Solo se tenían el uno al otro.

All they had was one another.

Tatoeba #2000047

Solo tenían un hijo.

They had only one child.

Tatoeba #1289113

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

Words often found with "tenían"

Each of these shares at least three of those Tatoeba sentences with "tenían"; the number is how many.

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Related words

tener - all tensesverb tabletenerbase formtengotienetienestenemosteníatienen

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