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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
Nom. tener tenera tenerum Gen. tenerī tenerae tenerī Dat. tenerō tenerae tenerō Acc. tenerum teneram tenerum Voc. tener tenera tenerum Abl. tenerō tenerā tenerō PLURAL.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
Thus animated by her own self-approval, Aunt Rachel, sometimes in scorn, sometimes in tenderness, but of tener in triumph, walked homeward, waited the due time, and walked back to church again.
From Aunt Rachel by David Christie Murray
We have the high authority of Sancho for saying,— "Para dar y tener Seso ha menester."
From Castilian Days by John Hay
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