No tenemos tiempo hoy.

today

Breakdown of No tenemos tiempo hoy.

• no: no
• tener tiempo: to have time

Questions & Answers about No tenemos tiempo hoy.

Why does the sentence start with no?

In Spanish, the usual way to make a sentence negative is to put no directly before the verb.

• Tenemos tiempo = We have time
• No tenemos tiempo = We do not have time

So no goes before tenemos.

What does tenemos mean exactly?

Tenemos is the nosotros form of the verb tener, which usually means to have.

The present-tense forms are:

• tengo = I have
• tienes = you have
• tiene = he/she/you have
• tenemos = we have
• tienen = they/you all have

So tenemos means we have.

Why isn’t nosotros included?

Spanish often leaves out subject pronouns because the verb ending already shows who the subject is.

• Tenemos already tells you the subject is we
• So No tenemos tiempo hoy is completely natural

You could say Nosotros no tenemos tiempo hoy, but that usually adds emphasis, such as:

• We don’t have time today
• As for us, we don’t have time today

In normal conversation, leaving out nosotros is more common.

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