El pis té calefacció.

to have

Breakdown of El pis té calefacció.

• el pis: the apartment
• la calefacció: the heating

Questions & Answers about El pis té calefacció.

What does pis mean exactly? Is it the same as apartment?

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.

Why is it el pis and not la pis?

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

What does té mean, and why does it have an accent?