El pis té calefacció.

Pis usually means flat/apartment in Catalan, especially in everyday speech in Catalonia. It refers to a dwelling in a building with multiple homes.

A few useful comparisons:

• pis = flat/apartment
• casa = house/home
• apartament also exists, but it often sounds more like apartment in the sense of a holiday apartment, a more modern term, or something slightly different in context.

So in ordinary housing descriptions, pis is extremely common.

Because pis is a masculine noun in Catalan, so it takes the masculine singular article el.

Catalan definite articles:

• el = the (masculine singular)
• la = the (feminine singular)
• els = the (masculine plural)
• les = the (feminine plural)

So:

• el pis = the flat/apartment
• la casa = the house

Té means has. It is the 3rd person singular present form of the verb tenir (to have).

So:

• jo tinc = I have
• tu tens = you have
• ell / ella / això té = he / she / it has

The accent in té is important because it helps distinguish it from te, which can mean tea or an unstressed pronoun in other contexts. The accent also shows the stressed vowel.

Because Catalan usually does not use an explicit subject pronoun when it is already clear from the verb form or the context. This is similar to Spanish and Italian.

So instead of saying something like It has heating, Catalan simply says:

• El pis té calefacció.

The subject is already there as el pis, so there is no need for a separate word meaning it.

In Catalan, after tenir (to have), nouns referring to general features, facilities, or qualities often appear without an article.

So:

• té calefacció = has heating
• té balcó = has a balcony
• té piscina = has a swimming pool

This is very natural in Catalan. English also often does something similar:

• It has heating not necessarily
• It has the heating

If you added an article, it would usually change the nuance and sound more specific.

A simple learner-friendly pronunciation guide is:

el pees tay ka-le-fa-see-O

A few details:

• el = roughly el
• pis = pees
• té = tay
• calefacció = roughly ka-le-fa-see-O

The final stressed syllable in calefacció is important because of the written accent: -ció.

Pronunciation varies somewhat by region, but this will guide you well.

The normal, neutral order is:

• El pis té calefacció.

Catalan usually prefers subject + verb + object/complement in basic statements.

You may sometimes see other word orders for emphasis or style, but Té calefacció el pis sounds marked and is not the neutral way a learner should start. The standard sentence to use is:

• El pis té calefacció.

Yes, but the meaning changes slightly.

• El pis té calefacció = The flat/apartment has heating.
• Hi ha calefacció = There is heating.

So:

• té focuses on what the apartment possesses as a feature.
• hi ha states that something exists/is present.

In a property description, té calefacció is very natural because you are listing features of the apartment.

By itself, calefacció just means heating in a general sense. It does not specify the type.

If you want to be more specific, Catalan can say things like:

• calefacció central = central heating
• calefacció de gas = gas heating
• calefacció elèctrica = electric heating

So in your sentence, the idea is simply that the apartment includes heating.

You put no before the verb:

• El pis no té calefacció. = The flat/apartment does not have heating.

That is the standard way to negate it in Catalan.

In Catalan, you can often make a yes/no question just by using question intonation in speech, or question marks in writing:

• El pis té calefacció? = Does the flat/apartment have heating?

You can also use a more explicit spoken pattern in some contexts, but for learners, simply keeping the same word order and using question intonation is very common and correct.