20.8 hay que (impersonal to have to) |
You have to be quite sure before you get married.
One has to be quite sure before getting married.
To express these kind of general clauses the Spanish uses hay que. Se tiene que could be used as well, but our Google-Test showed the following results:
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Hay que is only used in
the third person singular. It's a left over of the time
when haber was
a full verb and had the meaning of to have to (see chapter
7.1.). It can be also used in past tense.
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