Learn Spanish (Spain): ¿Tienes el dinero?

¿Tienes el dinero?

Do you have the money?

Breakdown of ¿Tienes el dinero?

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Questions & Answers about ¿Tienes el dinero?

Why is the verb tienes instead of "tenes"?

The verb tener (to have) is a "stem-changing" verb. For the informal "you" form, the e in the middle changes to ie, making it tienes. You will see this ie change in most other forms of this verb too, like tiene (he/she has) and tienen (they have).

Where is the word for "you" in this sentence?

In Spanish, you usually don't need to say the subject pronoun (like tú for "you") because the verb form already tells us who is doing the action. Since tienes specifically means "you have", adding tú is optional and usually left out unless you want to emphasize it.

How does Spanish form a question without a word like "Do"?

Spanish doesn't use helper words like "do" or "does" to make questions. Instead, you just use the regular sentence structure and wrap it in question marks: the upside-down ¿ at the beginning and the standard ? at the end. In spoken Spanish, raising the pitch of your voice at the end of the sentence is what makes it a question.

Why is it el dinero and not la dinero?

Dinero (money) is a masculine noun. We can usually guess a noun is masculine when it ends in the letter -o. Because it is masculine and singular, it uses the masculine word for "the", which is el.