Breakdown of Esa ventanilla está abierta desde las ocho hasta las cinco.
las
the (feminine plural)
estar
to be (location/state)
abierto
open
esa
that (feminine)
Questions & Answers about Esa ventanilla está abierta desde las ocho hasta las cinco.
Why use desde and hasta instead of just de and a?
Both are correct for telling time! Using de and a (like de ocho a cinco) is very common in everyday speech. Using desde (from/since) and hasta (until/to) puts a little more emphasis on the exact duration, like saying from exactly eight up until five. Notice that with desde and hasta, you must include the article las before the numbers.
What is the difference between a ventana and a ventanilla?
Why do we need the word las before the numbers ocho and cinco?
In Spanish, hours of the day are feminine because they secretly refer to the word horas (hours). Since eight and five are plural, we use the feminine plural article las.
Why do we use está instead of es for 'is open'?