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| stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5832 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin | Message 9 of 12 07 June 2009 at 3:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hay is a contraction of ha allí (I think)or something similar. (Compare Fr il y a, Catalan hi ha, Ital c'e) So for the other tenses you use forms of the verb haber. Habrá there will be, había there was (imperfect tense), ha habido (perfect tense)hubo (preterite tense).
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| TheBiscuit Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 5923 days ago 532 posts - 619 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Italian Studies: German, Croatian | Message 10 of 12 07 June 2009 at 3:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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You can also use va a haber which you'll hear a lot in the spoken language in Latin American Spanish.
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6011 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 11 of 12 07 June 2009 at 5:14pm | IP Logged | ||
Well it originally was a contraction, but it's now just a word. But as your examples suggest, "hay" only exists as a special case in the present indicative. In any other tense, you just use the el/ella/Usted form of haber. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Geordieboy Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5937 days ago 32 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 12 of 12 07 June 2009 at 8:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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ah ok thanks that's what i thought it might be but i wanted to make sure
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