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El televisor está enfrente del sillón.

El televisor está enfrente del sillón.
The television is in front of the armchair.
From Lesson 90:Complex prepositions of place (encima de, debajo de...)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about El televisor está enfrente del sillón.

Why does this sentence use del sillón instead of de el sillón?
When the preposition de is directly followed by the masculine article el, they must combine to form the contraction del. Because sillón is masculine (el sillón), the phrase enfrente de el automatically becomes enfrente del.
I usually say la televisión. Why is it el televisor here?
El televisor refers specifically to the physical TV set or screen, which makes sense here since we are talking about where the object is located in the room. La televisión usually refers to the medium, the broadcast, or the programming you watch on it.
Could I just say enfrente el sillón without the del?
No, you always need the de (which becomes del here) when using these complex prepositions of place to connect to a specific object. Enfrente by itself just means in front or opposite. To say in front of something, you must use enfrente de.
Why do we use está instead of es if the TV is permanently in that spot?
We use está (from the verb estar) because the sentence describes physical location. A key rule in Spanish is that estar is always used to talk about where people or things are located in space, regardless of whether that location is temporary or permanent.

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