The building
Most people in Spain live in a piso (flat) inside un edificio (a building). A building has la escalera (the stairs) and often el ascensor (the lift).
| There is a lift in the building. | Hay un ascensor en el edificio. |
| There is no lift, but there are stairs. | No hay ascensor, pero hay una escalera. |
Floors: la planta
Each floor of a building is una planta. The ground floor is la planta baja. To ask which floor someone lives on, use ¿En qué planta…?
| I live on the ground floor. | Vivo en la planta baja. |
| Which floor do you live on? | ¿En qué planta vives? |
What a flat has: tener with no article
When you ask or say whether a place has something, the noun after tener or hay often goes without an article — you are talking about the kind of thing, not one particular item.
| Does the building have a lift? | ¿Tiene ascensor el edificio? |
| In the flat there is heating. | En el piso hay calefacción. |
| word | meaning |
|---|---|
| el apartamento | the apartment |
| el estudio | the studio flat (one room) |
| el garaje | the garage |
| la terraza | the terrace |
| la calefacción | the heating |
| The apartment has a terrace. | El apartamento tiene una terraza. |
| She lives in a studio flat. | Ella vive en un estudio. |
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