Breakdown of Me voy a quedar en un hotel barato.
un
a, an (masculine)
en
in / on / at
barato
cheap
el hotel
hotel
ir
to go
a
to
quedarse
to stay / to end up / become
Questions & Answers about Me voy a quedar en un hotel barato.
I see the 'going to' part (voy a), but why is me at the very beginning of the sentence?
To say 'to stay' in Spanish, you use the reflexive verb quedarse (which acts like 'to stay oneself'). Because you are the one staying, you use the pronoun me. When using the near future structure (ir a + infinitive), you have two choices for where to put this pronoun: right before the conjugated verb (Me voy a quedar) or attached to the very end of the infinitive (Voy a quedarme). Both are perfectly correct!
Why do we need the a in voy a quedar?
To say you are 'going to' do something in Spanish, you must use the formula: a conjugated form of the verb ir (to go) + a + an infinitive verb (the unchanged action word). Here, voy is 'I go', a is the required connecting word, and quedar is the action. You cannot drop the a when talking about the future!
Why is the word order hotel barato instead of barato hotel?
In English, descriptive words (adjectives) come before the noun, like in 'cheap hotel'. In Spanish, this rule is flipped! Descriptive adjectives almost always come right after the thing they are describing. That is why it is written as hotel barato.
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