How to be negative in Spanish: There isn’t / There aren’t: NO HAY!

Third instalment of the Spanish term HAY.

But don’t be so negative!

Before you start out you can look back on previous  two posts on this topic for beginners in Spanish, “There’s” a really useful word  and  “There are” so many words in Spanish!

In those post  we saw how both ‘THERE IS’  and ‘THERE ARE’ are rendered by the same word in Spanish: HAY. 

How cool is that?

Take a quick look back at those two posts to refresh the old memory neurons.

Don’t be so negative!

This post is a simple article showing, as always, how easy it is to express the NEGATIVE in Spanish and the negative of HAY, fortunately, is no exception.

So this is post is teaching:  THERE ISN’T …..or ……THERE AREN’T……

  IN THE SINGULAR:

THERE IS = HAY               THERE ISN’T = NO HAY

HAY una mesa = There’s a table

NO HAY  mesa = There isn’t a table

HAY una televisión = There’s a television

NO HAY  televisión= There isn’t a television

 

 

A CHAIR…NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU  DON’T

HAY una silla = There’s a chair              

NO HAY silla = There isn’t a chair

 IN THE PLURAL:

THERE ARE = HAY       THERE AREN’T = NO HAY

HAY mesas = There are some tables

NO HAY mesas = There aren’t any tables

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HAY televisiones = There are some televisions

NO HAY televisiones = There aren’t any televisions

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HAY  sillas = There are some chairs

NO HAY sillas = There aren’t any  chairs

                                     AMAZING CONCLUSIONS

NO HAY mesa                    There isn’t a table

NO HAY silla                      There isn’t a chair

NO HAY televisión           There isn’t a television

NO HAY mesas                 There aren’t any tables

NO HAY sillas                   There aren’t any chairs

NO HAY televisiones       There aren’t any televisions

Can you see any pattern emerging? Of course you can. They’re ALL the SAME.

There can’t be anything easier than this! (Well, maybe)

Repeat all the above sentences out loud, even though people will think you are going bonkers…Your Spanish is more important than what they think of you.

See a previous post, Repeat, repeat, repeat, about the benefits of serious repetition (aloud) in language learning.

                                                        SOMETHING TO DO

Now you have to make this lovely little word your own…

Don’t be lazy using the examples from MY living room…use YOUR OWN living room!

Look around your room, house, office, place where you’re at, and create YOUR OWN TRUE SENTENCES…

A great on-line dictionary to help you is SpanishDict.com. Make your OWN sentences.

I can help you make some of those sentences. Jot down in the comments what you would like to say, using this Spanish term NO HAY , and I can help you make your VERY OWN SENTENCES.

Sentences that make sense to you.

Leave some sentences in the comments below and let me help you…

We haven’t finished with HAY yet! See next post!

More next time…