Question 1

Why do we use está here instead of es?

Accepted Answer

Está comes from the verb estar, which we use to talk about locations. Even though the calendar might always stay in the kitchen, Spanish always uses estar to say where a physical object is located. We save es (from ser) for things like descriptions, identity, or telling the time.

Question 2

Does the word en always mean "in"?

Accepted Answer

Not always! The Spanish word en is very flexible and can mean "in," "on," or "at" depending on the context. Here, en la cocina means "in the kitchen," but if you said en la mesa, it would usually mean "on the table."

Question 3

Calendario and cocina use different words for "the" (el and la). Why is that?

Accepted Answer

In Spanish, nouns have a gender. Calendario ends in -o, which usually indicates a masculine word, so it uses el. Cocina ends in -a, which usually indicates a feminine word, so it uses la.

Question 4

How does this tie into how we express dates on the calendar?

Accepted Answer

A calendario shows you the months and days. As a quick reminder from this lesson, when you want to say a specific date you see on that calendar, you use the pattern el [número] de [mes], for example, el cuatro de julio (the fourth of July).

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