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¿Has visto la tormenta esta mañana?

¿Has visto la tormenta esta mañana?
Have you seen the storm this morning?
From Lesson 117:Irregular past participles (visto, escrito)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about ¿Has visto la tormenta esta mañana?

Why is the word for 'seen' visto instead of something like 'veído'?
The verb ver (to see) has an irregular past participle. Instead of following the normal rules to end in '-ido', it ends in '-to', making it visto. This is one of a small group of common verbs that do this, just like escribir becomes escrito and abrir becomes abierto.
Why use has visto (have seen) here instead of the simple past tense (did you see)?
In Spain, when you talk about an action that happened in a time period that is not over yet, like esta mañana (this morning), you use the present perfect tense (has visto). If you were asking about a finished time period, like yesterday, you would use the simple past tense.
Why is 'have' translated as has here instead of tienes?
Spanish has two verbs for 'to have'. Tener is used for possessing something (like 'I have a dog'). Haber is used as a helper verb to build past actions like 'have seen' or 'have eaten'. Because we are saying 'have seen', we use the tú (you) form of haber, which is has.
Why is it esta mañana and not este mañana?
The noun mañana (morning) is feminine, so the word for 'this' has to match its gender, becoming esta. While el mañana does exist in Spanish, it means 'the future'. When talking about the morning time of day, it is always feminine.

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