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En el piso hay una habitación grande.

En el piso hay una habitación grande.
In the flat there is a big room.
From Lesson 18:There is, there are (hay)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about En el piso hay una habitación grande.

Why does piso mean flat here? Doesn't it mean floor?
In Spain, piso is the most common word for a flat or apartment. It can also mean the floor you walk on or a level of a building, but in this context it refers to the home itself.
Why use hay instead of a form of estar or ser for "there is"?
Hay is a special, unchangeable word that means both "there is" and "there are". You use hay to say that something exists. You only use estar when talking about the location of a specific, known thing.
How do we know to use una before habitación?
Una is the feminine word for "a" or "an". We know to use it here because Spanish words that end in -ción are almost always feminine.
Why is grande placed after the noun, and why doesn't it end in "-a" for a feminine room?
In Spanish, descriptive words (adjectives) usually come after the thing they describe, which is why it is habitación grande. Also, adjectives that end in -e like grande are used for both masculine and feminine nouns, so they never change to an -a or -o ending.

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