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¿Tenéis que entregar los informes ahora?

¿Tenéis que entregar los informes ahora?
Do you have to hand in the reports now?
From Lesson 58:Obligation (tener que)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about ¿Tenéis que entregar los informes ahora?

Why do we need the word que after tenéis?
This is how you express obligation in Spanish! The phrase tener que means "to have to" do something. You conjugate the verb tener (here it's tenéis), add que, and follow it with an unconjugated verb (the infinitive, entregar). Without que, tener just means "to possess" or "to hold".
Who exactly is tenéis referring to?
It refers to "you all" (plural informal). This is the vosotros form, which is used every day in Spain. If you were asking just one person if they had to hand in the reports, you would use the singular form: ¿Tienes que entregar los informes ahora?
Why isn't there a word for "Do" at the start of the Spanish sentence?
Spanish doesn't use helping verbs like "do" or "does" to form questions. You simply take the normal statement (Tenéis que entregar... meaning "You have to hand in..."), put upside-down and regular question marks around it, and make your voice go up at the end when speaking.
In English we say "hand in". Why is it just one word (entregar) in Spanish?
English uses a lot of phrasal verbs (a verb plus a small word like "in", "up", or "out"), but Spanish usually has a single specific verb for the action. Entregar means "to turn in", "to hand in", or "to deliver". You don't need to translate the word "in" at all.

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