How do you say "casa" in English
English / / July 04, 2021
In Spanish we use the word house to refer to the place where we live, both in a restricted sense (the building or department), and in a broad sense (the neighborhood, the city or the country).
In English there are two words to say house. When we talk about the property, (building, or construction that we generally inhabit), we use the word House.
My house is in 21st Germany Street, in Brimingham.
His house is built with volcanic rocks.
In addition to House, there are other words to name some constructions and buildings that we inhabit:
Flat - Department. Both forms mean department. Flat It is used mainly in the English of the United Kingdom, to refer both to an apartment and to an entire apartment that is owned or rented and in which one lives. Department is using in North American English with the same uses as the British flat:
I'm from London. My flat is the 3C, in the 221B, Baker Street.
I invite you to my department. Is in the 4th floor, 124 fifth Avenue, New York, in front of Central Park.
Bungalow. This is how rustic houses are called, generally one-story, more or less spacious, and built of wood.
We have a Bungalow near Chicago.
I have a bungalow 20 minutes near the beach.
Cottage. It is the rustic country house. Unlike the bungalow, the cottage is more rustic and can have more than one floor, in addition to being a room more focused on life in the country.
Lincoln live his childhood in a little cottage in Kentucky.
Helen likes cottages, she loves the country.
Tent. It means a tent, the small tents where we sometimes take refuge on the nights we want to spend outdoors.
The weekend I sleep in a tent in my house’s yard.
We pass the summer camp in tents near the mountains.
When we speak of home in the broad sense, that is, of the place where we develop our life together, where we rest and live with the family, we use the word home, which also translates to home:
After work I go home early.
I'm in my home, sweet home.
We also use home in a broad sense, that is, when we talk about our neighborhood, city or country.
After three months in Europe, Finally I come home.
When we are in Mexico City, we feel in home.
Some words derived from home are homeland (homeland); hometown (place of birth, place of origin); homeless (homeless, homeless, helpless); homelessness (helplessness, no place to live); homemaker (builder, contractor); homework (homework, homework. This we must distinguish it from housework, work related to the house, housework); homepage (Main page of a website. It is to the page where it sends us when marking the domain name of a website).
10 Examples of sentences with how to say home in English:
Please, send the package to my house in midtown.
My home is your home, please feel comfortable.
I need a homemaker, my house has leaks.
Your flat is a nice home.
Spain! I'm arriving home again!
Many years ago, that office center was around of 4 or 6 houses.
When I go with my granny, I ever feel in home.
The summer Mary will stay in a bungalow and Ann in a cottage.
My homeland was Acapulco, in Mexico.
The homeless people don't have a house.