Hay in English translates into “There is” or “there are”. It’s normal if that happens, but you can easily understand the difference between these two verbs. Some beginner learners tend to confuse hay with está. If you want to refresh your knowledge on the future tense in Spanish, read “ The Future SImple Tense in Spanish: el Futuro simple.” Hay vs Estar – What’s the difference In the future simple tense, you will use habrá. If you want to learn a difference between the two past Spanish tenses, check out “ Preterite vs Imperfect: A Beginner’s Guide to the Past Tense in Spanish.” The simple future tense Hay in the imperfect tense in Spanish turns into había. The impersonal form for hay in the simple past tense in Spanish is hubo. Let’s keep it simple and stay with the cats. When you want to use hay in Spanish in other tenses, for example, to say “there was” or “there will be”, you’ll also have to learn one impersonal form for each tense. Keep these sentences in mind as I will come back to them later. If I’m not sure about the exact number of these not very familiar animals, I could also say: In none of the cases, I know the animals that are in my garden. In the sentences above I used them with a singular noun ( un gato), and plural noun ( tres gatos). So you can forget for a while about gender and number agreement, and the conjugation endings and learn the easy part. “Impersonal” means that it never changes no matter the gender or number of the noun that follows it. Hay is an impersonal form of haber (to be, to have). I guess you already figured out the translation, didn’t you? Yes, hay Spanish means both “there is” and “there are”.
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