S1 Estructura 3.4 Tener and Venir

How

do

family

and

family

relationships vary across cultures?

How do people identify themselves
in relationship to their other family
members?

How do family interractions in the
U.S. compare to those in other
countries?

Essential questions

Today you will:

Learn the present tense forms of tener and venir

Important to know!

Because their
forms are
irregular, you will
have to learn each
one individually

Part of the Most Frequently Used Verbs Club:

tener - to have

venir - to come

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3.4-2

tenemos

venimos

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3.4-4

In the tú, Ud., and Uds. forms, the e of the stem changes to
ie, as shown below.

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3.4-5

Only the nosotros and vosotros forms are regular.
Compare them to the forms of comer and escribir that you
learned on page 96.