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¿Tienes la tarjeta del metro?

¿Tienes la tarjeta del metro?
Do you have the metro card?
From Lesson 70:Public Transport·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about ¿Tienes la tarjeta del metro?

Why is there no word for "Do" in the Spanish sentence?
In Spanish, you don't need helper words like "do" or "does" to make a question. The verb tienes already means "you have," and simply adding question marks turns it into "Do you have?".
What exactly is the word del?
The word del is a combination of two words: de (of) and el (the). In Spanish, whenever de is followed immediately by the masculine word for "the" (el), they must merge into del. So del metro translates literally to "of the metro".
Why is it la tarjeta del metro instead of just "la metro tarjeta"?
In English, we often put two nouns together, like "metro card". In Spanish, you can't stack nouns this way. Instead, you describe the main object by using de (of) plus the second noun. So, "the metro card" becomes la tarjeta del metro, which literally means "the card of the metro".

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