Help, why en los verbos va "To"?
Don't i understand why use "To" in the
Seguramente esa pregunta este mal, no entiendo porque se usa "To" en algunos verbos, for example "I have to sleep"="Yo tengo sueño", no es lo mismo decir "I have Sleep"
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La verdad en inglés no se usa "to have" en estos casos. Se diría "I am sleepy": muchas veces se usa el verbo to be + un adjetivo, por ejemplo:
Tengo sed = I'm thirsty
Tengo hambre = I'm hungry
Tengo frío = I'm cold/chilly
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As Vincenzo says, the correct translation of "Yo tengo sueno" into English is "I am tired" or "I am sleepy". Where Spanish uses the verb 'tener' plus a noun (sustantivo), English often uses a different construction : the verb 'be' plus an adjective.
The English sentence "I have to sleep" is different: this would be "Tengo que dormir" in Spanish. In this case, the two structures are parallel: a modal verb indicating necessity, plus an infinitive.
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