Word
Hay una tina blanca en el baño.
Meaning
There is a white bathtub in the bathroom.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Breakdown of Hay una tina blanca en el baño.
en
in / on / at
blanco
white
el baño
the bathroom
la tina
the bathtub (LatAm)
Questions & Answers about Hay una tina blanca en el baño.
Why do we use hay here instead of está?
Why is it blanca and not blanco?
In Spanish, describing words (adjectives) have to match the gender of the noun they describe. Because tina is a feminine word (which we can also tell by the word una), the color "white" must be in its feminine form: blanca.
Why does blanca come after tina?
In English, we put the color before the noun ("white bathtub"), but in Spanish, descriptive adjectives usually come after the noun. So, you literally say "a bathtub white" (una tina blanca).
Does en mean "in" or "on"?
It can mean both! The word en is a very flexible preposition that translates to "in", "on", or "at" depending on the context. Here, common sense tells us the bathtub is inside the room, so it means "in the bathroom" (en el baño).