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Hemos

Hemos is the first-person plural present indicative form of the auxiliary verb haber in Spanish. It is used to form the present perfect, a tense that expresses actions that have relevance to the present or that occurred at an unspecified time up to now. For example, hemos comido means we have eaten, and hemos vivido aquí for we have lived here. The present perfect can also be extended to the present perfect continuous with haber estado plus a gerund, as in hemos estado esperando.

Conjugation and usage details: The full present tense of haber is yo he, tú has, él ha,

Common usages and examples: The present perfect with hemos is often used with time adverbs such as

Etymology and history: The form hemos descends from Latin habēmus, through the development of the Spanish verb

See also: present perfect, haber, haber conjugation, present tense of haber.

nosotros
hemos,
vosotros
habéis,
ellos
han.
Thus,
hemos
is
one
of
the
key
forms
needed
to
construct
perfect
tenses.
Haber
is
irregular,
with
historical
roots
in
Latin
habēre;
in
contemporary
Spanish,
its
forms
are
auxiliary
rather
than
a
main
lexical
meaning
of
“to
have.”
ya
(already),
todavía
(still/yet),
alguna
vez
(ever),
or
desde
(since).
Examples
include
Hemos
terminado
el
informe,
Hemos
viajado
mucho
este
año,
and
¿Qué
hemos
hecho
hasta
ahora?
The
distinction
between
haber
as
an
auxiliary
and
tener
as
a
possession
verb
is
important;
tenemos
expresses
ownership,
whereas
hemos
expresses
completed
actions
or
states
connected
to
the
present.
haber
to
serve
as
an
auxiliary
auxiliary
verb
rather
than
a
primary
sense
of
“to
have.”
The
usage
of
haber
as
an
auxiliary
became
standard
in
modern
Spanish
for
forming
perfect
tenses.