Breakdown of Están en el hotel y van al museo.
y
and
en
in / on / by (means of transport) / about (after pensar)
estar
to be (location/state)
el hotel
the hotel
el museo
the museum
ir
to go
al
to the (m)
Questions & Answers about Están en el hotel y van al museo.
Where is the word for "they" in this sentence?
In Spanish, you often leave out the subject pronoun (like ellos or ellas for "they"). The verbs están (they are) and van (they go) already have endings that tell us exactly who is doing the action.
Why is "are going" translated as just one word, van?
In Spanish, the simple present tense covers both "they go" and "they are going". You don't need to add a word for "are" before it. Van is the "they" form of the highly irregular verb ir (to go).
Why does the sentence say al museo instead of a el museo?
Whenever the preposition a (to) is followed by the masculine article el (the), they are forced to combine into the single word al. Because museo is masculine, "to the" becomes al. You will never see a el written together as two separate words!
Why do we use están for "they are" instead of son?
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