At the hotel
| Spanish | English |
|---|---|
| completo | fully booked; complete |
| individual | single (a room, a bed) |
| deshacer | to unpack; to undo |
| The hotel is fully booked this weekend. | El hotel está completo este fin de semana. |
A hotel or a flight with no places left está completo. After a noun like nombre it means full, whole: tu nombre completo is your full name.
| A double or a single room? | ¿Una habitación doble o individual? |
Individual has one form for masculine and feminine nouns: una cama individual. The plural is individuales.
| I pack the suitcase on Friday and unpack it on Sunday. | Hago la maleta el viernes y la deshago el domingo. |
Deshacer is hacer with des- in front, and it takes the same irregular forms: deshago, deshicimos, he deshecho.
Finding your way
perderse is perder (to lose) with se: me pierdo, nos perdimos.
| Without a map, I always get lost. | Sin mapa, siempre me pierdo. |
consultar is what you do with a map or a timetable when you need information from it.
| We consulted the map and found the hotel. | Consultamos el mapa y encontramos el hotel. |
Money and culture
| The room costs a hundred dollars a night. | La habitación cuesta cien dólares la noche. |
El dólar ends in a consonant, so, like most such nouns, it adds -es in the plural: cien dólares. A price per night often uses la: cien dólares la noche.
| Football is very popular in Spain. | El fútbol es muy popular en España. |
Popular has one form for masculine and feminine nouns; the plural is populares.
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