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¿Tuviste problemas con tu aerolínea?

¿Tuviste problemas con tu aerolínea?
Did you have problems with your airline?
From Lesson 103:The preterite of tener, estar, and hacer·Spanish (Latin America)

Breakdown of ¿Tuviste problemas con tu aerolínea?

tener
to have
el problema
the problem
tu
your
con
with
la aerolínea
the airline

Questions & Answers about ¿Tuviste problemas con tu aerolínea?

Why is the word for 'you had' tuviste instead of something like 'teniste'?
Tener (to have) is highly irregular in the preterite (completed past) tense. It changes its stem to tuv- and uses a special set of endings. For the tú (you informal) form, that makes it tuviste.
I noticed problemas ends in '-as'. Is it a feminine word?
No, it is actually masculine (el problema or los problemas). Many Spanish words that end in -ma (like el sistema or el idioma) are masculine because they originally came from the Greek language. This is a common exception to the rule that words ending in '-a' are feminine.
Why is there no accent mark on tu?
Tu without an accent mark is the possessive adjective 'your' (as in tu aerolínea, your airline). If it had an accent mark (tú), it would mean the subject pronoun 'you'.
Why does aerolínea have an accent mark on the í?
The accent mark tells you exactly where to put the spoken stress. Without it, the natural rules of Spanish pronunciation would put the stress on a different syllable. The accent ensures you pronounce it with the emphasis on that specific letter.

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