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El hotel tiene trescientas habitaciones.

El hotel tiene trescientas habitaciones.
The hotel has three hundred rooms.
From Lesson 43:Hundreds and thousands (doscientos, mil)·Spanish (Spain)

Breakdown of El hotel tiene trescientas habitaciones.

el hotel
the hotel
tener
to have
la habitación
the room
trescientos
three hundred

Questions & Answers about El hotel tiene trescientas habitaciones.

Why is the word for 'three hundred' trescientas instead of trescientos?
In Spanish, numbers in the hundreds (from 200 to 999) change their ending to match the gender of the noun they are counting. Because habitaciones is a feminine noun, trescientos becomes the feminine trescientas.
Why doesn't habitaciones have an accent mark? I thought the word for room was habitación.
You are right! The singular word habitación has an accent mark on the 'o'. However, when we add -es to make it plural, the spoken stress naturally falls on the correct syllable, so the written accent mark is no longer needed.
How can I tell that habitaciones is feminine if it doesn't end in 'a'?
A very useful rule in Spanish is that almost all nouns ending in -ción or -sión (like habitación, estación, or televisión) are feminine.
How do I pronounce hotel in Spanish? Is it exactly the same as in English?
It looks the same, but it sounds a bit different! In Spanish, the letter 'h' is always silent. So, hotel is pronounced like 'oh-TEL'.
Which verb is tiene?
Tiene is the 'he/she/it' form of the verb tener, which means 'to have'. It is an irregular verb, meaning its spelling changes a bit (the 'e' becomes 'ie' here) compared to regular verbs.

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