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El alojamiento en la playa es muy caro en agosto.

El alojamiento en la playa es muy caro en agosto.
The accommodation at the beach is very expensive in August.
From Lesson 137:Holidays (el alojamiento, hacer la maleta)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about El alojamiento en la playa es muy caro en agosto.

Why is it es muy caro instead of está muy caro?
We use es (from the verb ser) because being expensive is treated as a general, known characteristic of beach accommodation during August. If you wanted to express that the price is unusually high right now compared to normal, you could use estar and say está muy caro.
Why do we use en to mean "at" in en la playa?
The Spanish preposition en is very versatile. While English has separate words for "in", "on", and "at", Spanish uses en to cover all three of these locations. So, en la playa is the standard way to say "at the beach".
Why isn't the word for August (agosto) capitalized?
Unlike in English, months of the year and days of the week are not capitalized in Spanish unless they appear at the very beginning of a sentence.
Does alojamiento work exactly the same way as "accommodation" in English?
They mean the same thing, but they behave a bit differently in grammar. In English, "accommodation" is usually an uncountable concept (we don't typically say "an accommodation"). In Spanish, alojamiento is a regular countable noun, meaning you can say un alojamiento (a lodging) or los alojamientos (the accommodations). In this sentence, el alojamiento simply refers to accommodation in general.

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