tenían
had, they had
Verb tenían
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Second-person plural (ustedes) imperfect indicative form of tener.
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Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes) imperfect indicative form of tener.
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Los botes salvavidas del Titanic solo tenían espacio suficiente para llevar a cerca de la mitad de los que iban a bordo.
The Titanic's lifeboats only had enough space to carry about half of those on board.
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Asumí que tenían hambre.
I assumed you were hungry.
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No tenían rosas.
They didn't have any roses.
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Los estadounidenses que tenían dinero temían invertirlo.
Americans who had money were afraid to invest it.
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Ellos pasaban demasiado tiempo en Internet debido a que tenían un problema subyacente que además causaba que desatendieran a su hijo.
They used the Internet too much because they had some underlying problem that also caused them to neglect their child.
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Ellos tampoco tenían dinero.
They, too, were out of money.
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Antes de Internet los amigos y amantes tenían que cartearse.
Before the Internet, friends and lovers had to correspond.
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Los soldados tenían armas más poderosas.
The soldiers had more powerful weapons.
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Cuando yo era niño, solo los niños de familias pudientes tenían cuadernos argollados.
When I was a child, only children from wealthy families had ringed notebooks.
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Tom logró escapar de la habitación donde sus secuestradores lo tenían encerrado.
Tom managed to escape from the room where his kidnappers had kept him locked up.
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