haber

/aˈbeɾ/, [aˈβ̞eɾ]

have, see, to have


Examples
  • El año pasado Tom pasó cinco días en la cárcel, después de haber sido declarado culpable de conducir borracho.

    Tom served five days in jail last year after pleading guilty to drunken driving.

  • Debió haber consultado a su abogado.

    You should have consulted your lawyer.

  • Que tonto de mi no haber pensado en eso.

    How foolish of me for not having thought of that.

  • Debo haber perdido peso.

    I must've lost some weight.

  • Debiste haber comenzado hace media hora.

    You ought to have started half an hour ago.

  • Podría haber muerto esta noche.

    I could have died tonight.

  • Tom fingió no haber oído nada.

    Tom pretended to not hear a thing.

  • Lamento no haber podido escribirte antes.

    I'm sorry I couldn't write to you sooner.

  • No había nada que pude haber hecho.

    There was nothing I could've done.

  • Eso debe haber sido socialmente incómodo.

    That must have been socially awkward.

  • Nunca es demasiado tarde para ser lo que pudiste haber sido.

    It is never too late to be what you could have been.

  • Recuerdo haber oído aquella música en alguna parte.

    I remember hearing that music somewhere.

  • Tom debería haber hecho algo.

    Tom should've done something.

  • Puede no haber sido la culpa de mi hermano menor, pero tampoco fue mía.

    It mightn't have been my youngest brother's fault, but it wasn't mine either.

  • Es increíble que puedas escribir un programa tan bien diseñado, luego de haber aprendido programación por imitación.

    It's incredible that you could write such a well-designed program after just picking up programming by imitation.

  • Ella deseó haber nacido veinte años atrás.

    She wished she had been born twenty years earlier.

  • Tom no debería haber hecho esperar tanto a Mary.

    Tom shouldn't have kept Mary waiting so long.

  • Debería haber más frases en lenguas minoritarias en Tatoeba.

    There should be more sentences in minority languages in Tatoeba.

  • No sé qué pudo haber pasado.

    I don't know what could've happened.

  • Los arqueólogos creen haber descubierto el palacio del rey David.

    The archeologists think that they have discovered King David's palace.


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