Tener conjugation and meaning

Use the present forms of tener for current situations, routines and actions that happen regularly.

Use present haber with tenido for a completed action connected to the present.

Use the preterite when the action of tener is presented as completed in the past.

Use the imperfect for repeated or ongoing past uses of tener, or for background information.

Use imperfect haber with tenido for an action completed before another past point.

Use the future forms of tener for predictions, promises and future statements.

Use future haber with tenido for an action that will be complete before a future point.

Use the conditional forms of tener for hypothetical or tactful statements.

Use conditional haber with tenido for a hypothetical completed past action.

Use these forms when a current wish, reaction, doubt or another trigger requires the subjunctive.

Use present-subjunctive haber with tenido for a completed action in a present subjunctive context.

Use these forms for past subjunctive contexts and hypothetical structures; the equivalent -se series is also accepted where supplied.

Use imperfect-subjunctive haber with tenido for an unreal or earlier completed past action.

Choose the affirmative command of tener that matches the person being addressed.

Use no with the matching command form of tener.