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Yo tuve un seguidor falso en la red social.

Yo tuve un seguidor falso en la red social.
I had a fake follower on the social network.
From Lesson 131:Irregular negative informal commands (no vayas, no seas)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Yo tuve un seguidor falso en la red social.

Why is it tuve instead of a regular past tense ending?
Tuve is the irregular 'I' form of tener (to have) in the preterite tense, used for completed past actions. Tener completely changes its stem to tuv- in this tense, giving us forms like tuve, tuviste, and tuvo.
Is the word seguidor related to the verb seguir?
Yes! Seguir means 'to follow'. Adding the ending -dor to a verb often creates a noun for the person doing the action. It works exactly like adding '-er' to 'follow' to get 'follower' in English.
Why does falso come after seguidor instead of before it?
In Spanish, descriptive adjectives like falso (fake) almost always come immediately after the noun they describe. So instead of saying 'a fake follower', you say 'a follower fake' (un seguidor falso).
Why is it la red? I thought words that don't end in '-a' are usually masculine.
While many feminine words end in '-a', words ending in -d, -ión, and -z are also typically feminine in Spanish. Because red (network) ends in a -d, it uses the feminine article la, making it la red social.

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