{"id":53608,"date":"2020-03-21T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T09:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/?p=53608"},"modified":"2023-12-14T15:50:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T14:50:29","slug":"hay-there-is-there-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/blog\/hay-there-is-there-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Hay There is There are: Spanish Lesson 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the twelfth lesson in our beginner level Spanish course and we will look at the Spanish verb Hay There is There are.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

This is a very useful and easy to use Spanish verb that translates to There is<\/em> or There are<\/em> in English. We are going to practice using Hay There is There are<\/strong> to describe different things in a town or city. First let’s introduce some new useful vocabulary:<\/p>\n

Other Spanish vocabulary for describing towns and cities can be found in Spanish Lesson 10 Locations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

La plaza: square
\nEl parque: park
\nLa papelera: litter bin
\nEl monumento: monument
\nLa estatua: statue
\nEl parking: cark park
\nLa torre: tower
\nEl puerto: port
\nEl puente: bridge
\nEl sem\u00e1foro: traffic lights
\nLa se\u00f1al: traffic sign
\nEl t\u00fanel: tunnel
\nLa fuente: fountain
\nEl cruce de peatones: pedestrian crossing
\nEl buz\u00f3n: post box
\nLa rotonda: roundabout
\nLa farola: streetlight
\nLa acera: pavement<\/p>\n

\"Hay
Caminito del Rey bridge in Malaga<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Let’s see some example sentences where Hay<\/em> is used to describe towns and cities in Spanish with this vocabulary:<\/p>\n

Hay un puente bonito en M\u00e1laga llamado ‘Caminito del Rey’: There is a beautiful bridge in M\u00e1laga called ‘Caminito del Rey’.
\nHay un puerto interesante en C\u00e1diz: There is an interesting port in C\u00e1diz.
\nHay un fuente impresionante en Barcelona llamado ‘La fuente M\u00e1gica de Montjuic’: There is an impressive fountain in Barcelona called ‘La fuente M\u00e1gica de Montjuic’.
\nHay un parque grande en Madrid llamado ‘El Retiro’: There is a big park in Madrid called ‘El Retiro’.<\/p>\n

You may also choose to use Tener To have<\/a> and make similar descriptions such as Madrid tiene un parque grande llamado ‘El Retiro’<\/em> (Madrid has a big park called ‘El Retiro’).<\/p>\n

As is always the case with Spanish, making questions and negative sentences is very simple. To remind you of what we first learned in Spanish Lesson 4<\/a>, you add No<\/em> before the verb to make a negative sentence and with questions you simply make the intonation of a question when you are talking and use question marks when you are writing.<\/p>\n

For example:<\/p>\n

\u00bfHay un t\u00fanel en la ciudad? (Is there a tunnel in the city?): S\u00ed, hay un t\u00fanel (Yes there is a tunnel) \/ No hay un t\u00fanel (No there isn’t a tunnel).
\n\u00bfHay estatuas famosas en la ciudad? (Are there famous statues in the city?): S\u00ed, hay estatuas famosas (Yes there are famous statues) \/ No hay estatuas famosas (No there are not famous statues).<\/p>\n

That is all for this lesson about Hay There is There are<\/strong>. We recommend that you practice using this new and very useful Spanish verb to make sentences describing your own home town or city or a favourite holiday destination. You can also practice using the Spanish verbs Tener To have<\/a> and Estar To be<\/a> to make further descriptions of what the town or city has\/doesn’t have and where it is located.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the twelfth lesson in our beginner level Spanish course and we will look at the Spanish verb Hay There is There are.\u00a0 This is a very useful and easy to use Spanish verb that translates to There is or There are in English. We are going to practice using Hay There is There […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":53617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[1391,1516,1652],"class_list":["post-53608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spanish-lessons","tag-beginner-spanish-lessons","tag-learn-spanish","tag-spanish-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53622,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53608\/revisions\/53622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}