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The other day, a Spanish friend visited me in Glasgow. We went out to dinner with some friends from Scoceses and when we were outside the street, she said in English, I have cold. This made me smile a lot because of course what she meant was I am cold because it was really freezing in Glasgow that day. What happened was that I had to go directly to the Spanish. I have to go free. Which literally means I have cold. So that moment reminded me of how many everyday expressions in Spanish use to have when they use the verb to be in English. So prepare yourself because we are going to see some expressions. So in Spanish we don't say things like to be cold, to be hungry, to be scared and so on. Instead we use to have followed by a noun. We use to be cold. So let's start when you are feeling cold instead of saying I am cold in Spanish you'll need the verb to have. Tengo frío. If you were feeling hot instead you would say, tengo calor. Muy bien. So tengo frío, tengo calor. I'm cold or I'm hot. If you're feeling hungry, like me all the time to be honest, you are going to need the verb to have in Spanish too. So you would say, tengo hambre. So for example, if you want to ask someone, if they are hungry, you would say, tienes hambre. Similarly, to say, I'm thirsty, you would say, tengo sed. Okay, so we've seen, tengo frío, tengo calor, tengo hambre, y tengo sed. Let's continue. Imagine you're watching a scary movie and you want to say, I'm scared. Then you would say, tengo miedo. Literally, I have fear. La siguiente es muy importante. Now, if you want to say, I'm right, you would say, tengo razon. Or if you want to say that someone else is right, you would say, tienes razon. What about, I'm lucky. Pues entonces dirías, tengo suerte. Oh, he or she is very lucky. Tiene mucha suerte. Muy bien. Entonces ahora hemos visto, tengo miedo, tengo razón y tengo suerte. Let's see two more. What if you want to say, I'm sleepy in Spanish. Una pista, necesitamos también, el verbo tener. Therefore, I'm sleepy is tengo sueño. And finally, if you want to say, I'm careful, then you would say, tengo cuidado. But if you want to say, be careful to someone else, then you would say, ten cuidado. Or more formal, using the usted form, tenga cuidado. Muy bien. So, tengo sueño, I'm sleepy, tengo cuidado, I'm careful. Ahora vamos a practicar un poquito. Te voy a dar una frase en inglés y tú tienes que intentar traducirla al español. So, I'll read a sentence in English and then you need to translate it into Spanish. Don't worry if you don't know all the words. Just try your best and focus on the expressions we've seen. La primera frase es, I'm cold this morning because the house is very cold. I'm cold this morning because the house is very cold. Eso es, tengo frío. I'm cold esta mañana porque la casa está muy fría. Tengo frío esta mañana porque la casa está muy fría. Vamos a borla siguiente. My sister sleepy after working all night. Mi hermana tiene sueño después de trabajar toda la noche. Let's do another one. We are hungry after skin. Eso es, tenemos hambre después de esquiar. Venga, vamos a por otra. Be careful, the road is frozen. Eso es, ten cuidado la carretera está congelada. You could have also used the more formal version using a stead. Tenga cuidado la carretera está congelada. The children are scared with this film. The children are scared with this film. Así es, los niños tienen miedo con esta película. Fantastico, lo has hecho fenomenal. If you enjoyed that translation challenge, remember you can keep practicing through translation challenge videos or other many types of videos on Coffee Break TV. Head over to coffeebreaktv.com or download the Coffee Break TV app where you'll find many different videos and many types of lessons to help you practice your Spanish. Very good, we'll do a little summary of what we learned today. Many everyday expressions that use the verb to be in English are formed with tener to have in Spanish. To be cold is tener frío. To be hot is tener calor. To be hungry is tener hambre. To be scared is tener miedo. To be right is tener razón. To be lucky is tener suerte. To be sleepy is tener sueño. And finally to be careful is tener cuidado. Well, that's all for today. Thank you very much for listening and of course, very lucky with your learning. Until next time and Happy Coffee Break! You have been listening to a Coffee Break language's production for the RadioLingua Network. Copy rate 2025, RadioLingua Limited. Recording Copy Rate 2025, RadioLingua Limited. All rates reserved. Twilio's customer engagement platform empowers the builder's shaping tomorrow. Whether you're launching a startup or transforming an enterprise, Twilio helps you build, test and scale with confidence. Connect data, AI and communication in one seamless platform. No silos, no barriers. Twilio, the ultimate toolbox for customer engagement. Learn more at Twilio.com. Around about… now. This is usually the bit in the radio ad where you drift off. You half listen, your brain wanders home. Not to the house itself, but to what it could be. That thing you'd be meaning to sort. The room you always shut the door on. The brown lampshade that came with the house seven years ago. And when you decide right, today we do. Being cute has everything you need to get started. Tours, paints and yes, even the lampshade. You can do it when you be and cue it.
