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Nuestro vuelo no salió y tuvimos miedo.

Nuestro vuelo no salió y tuvimos miedo.
Our flight did not leave and we were afraid.
From Lesson 103:The preterite of tener, estar, and hacer·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Nuestro vuelo no salió y tuvimos miedo.

Why is the word for "we had" tuvimos instead of a regular ending like "tenimos"?
Tener (to have) is a highly irregular verb in the preterite tense. It changes its stem to tuv- and uses a special set of endings. For the "we" form, you add -imos to make tuvimos.
The translation says "we were afraid", so why do we use a form of tener (to have) instead of estar (to be)?
In Spanish, you "have" fear rather than "are" afraid. The expression is tener miedo (literally "to have fear"). Since the event happened in the past, we use the preterite form tuvimos miedo.
Why is it salió and not "saló"?
Salió comes from salir (to leave). For regular -ir and -er verbs in the preterite tense, the "he/she/it" ending is -ió. Since vuelo (flight) is the "it" doing the action, we use salió.
Does nuestro change if the people speaking are female?
No! The word nuestro (our) matches the noun it owns, not the people who own it. Because vuelo is a masculine, singular noun, you must use the masculine, singular form nuestro, regardless of who is speaking.

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