🏠 Spanish: My House and Rooms

This is my house! In Spanish, a house is la casa. Let’s go inside: Mi casa means “my house”. Today we will say the rooms, the furniture and where the cat is, in Spanish.

Look at the plan of the house: el dormitorio (bedroom), el baño (bathroom), el salón (living room), la cocina (kitchen). Every word has a little word in front: el or la. Both mean “the”, and we call them articles.

In Spanish, every noun is masculine or feminine. English does not do this, but Spanish does. Most words ending in -o are masculine: el. Words ending in -a are feminine: la. There are exceptions, like el sofá, so always learn a word with its article. Blue is masculine, pink is feminine.

Making a plural is easy, just like in English: add -s to a word that ends in a vowel. The article changes too: la silla → las sillas, el armario → los armarios. Masculine plural is los, feminine plural is las.

If the word ends in a consonant, we add -es: el reloj → los relojes, el ordenador → los ordenadores. So: -s after a vowel, -es after a consonant.

To say what is in a room, we use hay: Hay una cama. (There is a bed.) For more than one, we use a number and a plural noun: Hay dos sillas. (There are two chairs.) For “there is no”, we say no hay: No hay lámpara.

To say where something is, we use small place words. Where is the cat? ¿Dónde está el gato? It is on top of the table: El gato está encima de la mesa. “On top of” is encima de.

The cat jumped down and is now under the table: El gato está debajo de la mesa. “Under” is debajo de. On top of is encima de, under is debajo de.

Summary: el and la are for one thing, los and las for many. Hay means “there is” or “there are”. Encima de is on top of, debajo de is under. Now try it in Mi Casa!