haiga

Etymology 1
Assumption due to many other verbs having -g- inserted for their first-person present indicative and for all their present subjunctive (e.g. has  as its first-person present indicative and has -g- present in all its present subjunctive, and so does, , , and , along with many others). The -g- stem replaced many older verb stems, included -e-, -i-, -y-, all inherited from Latin, but did not replace the stems in the verb. Haiga was occasionally used in but never gained enough use to replace  as other verb conjugations did with their verb.

Verb

 * 1) * 2003, Hugo Paredero, ¿Cómo es un recuerdo? La dictadura contada por los chicos que la vivieron, 426:
 * "es"
 * "es"

- Que haiga trabajo, que haiga muchos trabajos en el mundo para ganar.



Usage notes

 * Haiga, as a conjugation of, is considered incorrect by the , the correct conjugation is.
 * Despite being declared incorrect by the Royal Spanish Academy, it is still widely used regionally by people, especially those of lower income and as such is sometimes used to imitate them in jokes.

Etymology 2
From the phrase. (see the first etymology under this section) is an incorrect conjugation of the verb (the correct form is ) and is often linked to how a person of low income speaks. Big cars were too linked with low-income individuals who wanted to appear very important, thus haiga was retained as a name for big cars.

Noun

 * 1)  a huge and flashy motorcar, automobile