tener
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Gustavo Arellano: There’s a saying in Spanish: no tener pelos en la lengua.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2018
Auxiliary verbs are the pedagogue's delight, but who begins Spanish by trying to discriminate between tener and haber, or ser and estar, or who learns tables of exceptions to improve his French?
From Cambridge Essays on Education by Various
Resembling G. tener but smaller, and s. not straight. pygmaeo-affinis, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
We have the high authority of Sancho for saying,— "Para dar y tener Seso ha menester."
From Castilian Days by John Hay
The English tender, the French tendre, the Latin tener, are derived from it.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
