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Sixty phrases and patterns that get a beginner through a day: greetings, courtesy, directions, ordering and paying, clock time and dates, question words, connectors, hay, hace + time, tener que, ir a + infinitive and the everyday tener expressions, each with when to use it.

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  1. Hola, ¿qué tal?
    Hi, how is it going?

    Informal and usable at any time of day with friends and peers. The usual reply is Bien, ¿y tú? — Fine, and you? ¿Qué tal…? also asks about something: ¿Qué tal el viaje? = How was the trip?
    Greetings & goodbyes
  2. Por favor
    Please

    Attach it to any request: Un café, por favor. The standard polite order is ¿Me da un café, por favor? — literally, will you give me a coffee, please?
    Courtesy
  3. No entiendo
    I do not understand

    Add nada for "at all" (No entiendo nada) or soften it with No entiendo bien. No comprendo means the same. Follow it with ¿Puede repetir?
    Getting by
  4. ¿Dónde está…?
    Where is ...?

    Where a person or thing is uses estar: ¿Dónde está el baño?, ¿Dónde están los taxis? (where an event takes place uses ser: ¿Dónde es la fiesta?). When you do not have a specific one in mind, use ¿Dónde hay…?: ¿Dónde hay una farmacia? = Where is there a pharmacy?
    Directions
  5. La carta, por favor
    The menu, please

    In Spain ask for la carta; there el menú usually means the fixed-price lunch (menú del día). In Latin America el menú is also fine for the menu itself.
    Ordering & shopping
  6. ¿Qué hora es?
    What time is it?

    Answer with Es la una (one o'clock, singular) and Son las dos, Son las tres… for every other hour. ¿Qué horas son? is common in Mexico and elsewhere; ¿Tiene hora? = Do you have the time?
    Numbers & time
  7. ¿Qué?
    What?

    ¿Qué es esto? = What is this? Before a noun it means which: ¿Qué libro quieres? Question words always carry the written accent.

    Watch out: Before es with a choice of answers, Spanish prefers cuál: ¿Cuál es tu nombre?
    Question words
  8. pero
    but

    Quiero ir, pero no tengo tiempo.

    Watch out: After a negative, a correction uses sino: No es rojo, sino azul = It is not red but blue.
    Connectors
  9. hay
    there is / there are

    One form for singular and plural: Hay un banco, Hay muchos restaurantes, No hay agua, ¿Hay wifi?

    Watch out: hay states that something exists; to locate a specific thing use estar: El banco está en la esquina.
    Key patterns
  10. tener hambre
    to be hungry

    Tengo mucha hambre. Hunger is a noun you "have", so "very" is mucha, not muy. El hambre takes el in the singular (a feminine noun beginning with a stressed a).
    Expressions with tener

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