Breakdown of ¡Qué alegría! Nos estamos quedando en un hotel precioso.
un
a, an (masculine)
en
in / on / at
el hotel
the hotel
qué
what
Questions & Answers about ¡Qué alegría! Nos estamos quedando en un hotel precioso.
Why isn't there a word for "a" in ¡Qué alegría!?
In English, we say "What a joy!", but in Spanish, you never use the indefinite articles un or una directly after ¡Qué...! in this type of exclamation. You just put the noun right after it, like ¡Qué alegría! (literally: "What joy!").
Does ¡Qué alegría! always translate to "What a joy!"?
Why is there a nos at the beginning of Nos estamos quedando?
The verb for "to stay" (at a hotel or in a place) is the reflexive verb quedarse. Because the subject is "we" (nosotros), we use the reflexive pronoun nos. You can place nos right before the conjugated verb estamos, like in this sentence, or attach it to the end of the action word: estamos quedándonos.
Could I use hermoso or bonito instead of precioso here?
Yes, you can! Precioso means "beautiful" or "gorgeous." While it looks like the English word "precious," in Spanish it is mostly used to describe something that looks really nice, very similar to hermoso or bonito.