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El hermano tiene la casa.

El hermano tiene la casa.
The brother has the house.
From Lesson 3:Basic sentences and negation (no)·Spanish (Latin America)

Breakdown of El hermano tiene la casa.

el hermano
the brother
tener
to have
la casa
the house

Questions & Answers about El hermano tiene la casa.

Is the word order here exactly the same as in English?
Yes! Just like in English, this sentence follows a Subject-Verb-Object pattern: El hermano (Subject) tiene (Verb) la casa (Object).
How do I make this sentence negative, like 'The brother doesn't have the house'?
To make a sentence negative in Spanish, you simply place no directly before the conjugated verb. So, it becomes: El hermano no tiene la casa.
Why is the verb tiene?
Tiene is the 'he/she/it' form of the verb tener (to have). Since el hermano (the brother) is a 'he', we use tiene. For a quick refresher, 'I have' is tengo and 'you have' is tienes.
Why does the sentence use El for brother but la for house?
In Spanish, every noun is assigned a gender. Hermano is a masculine noun, so it uses the masculine word for 'the', which is el. Casa is a feminine noun, so it uses the feminine word for 'the', which is la.

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