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El estacionamiento del hotel es grande.

El estacionamiento del hotel es grande.
The hotel's parking lot is big.
From Lesson 180:Polite advice (deberías...)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about El estacionamiento del hotel es grande.

Why is it es grande and not está grande? Isn't size something that can theoretically change?
In Spanish, physical descriptions and intrinsic characteristics like size always use ser (here, es), even if they might change in the future (like after a renovation). You only use estar for temporary states or conditions, such as if the parking lot were dirty or closed.
I've seen the word for 'big' or 'great' written as gran. Why is it grande here?
Grande is the full form of the adjective and is used when it comes after the noun or after a verb, as it does in this sentence. It only drops its ending to become gran when it is placed directly before a singular noun (for example, un gran hotel means 'a great hotel').
I previously learned aparcamiento for parking lot. Is estacionamiento different?
They mean the same thing, but estacionamiento is the standard word for 'parking lot' in Latin America. It comes from the verb estacionar (to park). The word aparcamiento is primarily used in Spain.
Why do we say del hotel instead of de el hotel?
Whenever the preposition de (of/from) is immediately followed by the masculine singular article el (the), they must combine to form the contraction del. This is a mandatory spelling and pronunciation rule in Spanish. However, you don't combine them if the second word is the pronoun él (he).

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