Word
El cuarto está completamente desordenado.
Meaning
The room is completely messy.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Lesson
Breakdown of El cuarto está completamente desordenado.
estar
to be
desordenado
messy
el cuarto
the room
completamente
completely
Questions & Answers about El cuarto está completamente desordenado.
Why is it “el cuarto” and not “la cuarto”?
In Spanish, every noun has a grammatical gender: masculine or feminine.
Cuarto (room) is a masculine noun, so it takes the masculine article el.
- el cuarto = the room (masculine)
- la habitación = the room (feminine)
The gender is mostly arbitrary and must be memorized with the noun. The -o ending often (not always) signals masculine, so el cuarto is standard.
What exactly does “cuarto” mean in Latin America? Room? Bedroom?
In Latin America, cuarto generally means room, and very often specifically bedroom, depending on context.
Examples:
- Estoy en mi cuarto. = I’m in my room / my bedroom.
- Tiene tres cuartos. = It has three rooms (often “three bedrooms” when describing a house/apartment).
Other words:
- dormitorio, recámara (Mex.), pieza (Chile, parts of the South Cone) also mean bedroom.
So El cuarto está completamente desordenado will usually be understood as “The bedroom is completely messy.”
Why is it “está” and not “es” here?