Learn Spanish (Spain): Todavía no hemos comprado los vehículos. No están armados. - We have not bought the vehicles yet. They are not armed.

Todavía no hemos comprado los vehículos. No están armados.

We have not bought the vehicles yet. They are not armed.

Breakdown of Todavía no hemos comprado los vehículos. No están armados.

to be (location/state)

haber

to have (auxiliary)

Questions & Answers about Todavía no hemos comprado los vehículos. No están armados.

Why use están here instead of son for "they are"?

Estar is used with a past participle (like armados) to describe a physical condition or state that is the result of a previous action. We are talking about the current status of the vehicles (they are not armed right now), rather than a permanent characteristic. This combination of estar + past participle is called the stative passive.

Why does the past participle armados end in -os here?

Normally, when you use a past participle in a compound tense (like hemos comprado), it always ends in -o. But when it is used with estar to describe a state, it acts just like an adjective. This means it must match the noun it describes in gender and number. Because it describes los vehículos (masculine plural), it becomes armados.

Can I separate todavía and no, or do they have to stay together?

To say "not yet" before the verb, Spanish keeps todavía no grouped together. However, you can move todavía to the very end of the sentence if you prefer. For example, you could also say: No hemos comprado los vehículos todavía.

What tense is hemos comprado and why is it used here instead of the simple past?