Love-Spanish.com: Is The Museum Near?

Tuesday, 13 August 2013

Is The Museum Near?

Introduction

This post deals with indicating how near/ far the museum is in Spanish, and the distance from where you are to the museum.

SCENARIO

Imagine you are with a relative, a friend, a work colleague or even a complete stranger who is looking for the museum and asks you: "is the museum near?"

In Spanish, the other person could choose to say:

¿Queda cerca el museo?

OUR TIP

The question is an invitation for you to say how far away the museum is. A yes/no answer may be strictly sufficient. However, with little effort, your answer could be a lot more informative.

Here are some examples of how you could reply:

El museo queda lejos (the museum is far away)
El museo queda bastante lejos (the museum is quite far away)
El museo queda muy lejos (the museum is very far away)
El museo queda cerca (the museum is near)
El museo queda bastante cerca (the museum is quite near)
El museo queda muy cerca (the museum is very near)
El museo queda a la vuelta de la esquina (the museum is around the corner)
El museo queda al final de la calle a la izquierda (the museum is at the end of the street/ road on the left)
El museo queda a dos manzanas (the museum is two blocks away)
El museo queda a dos cuadras (the museum is two blocks away)
El museo queda a cinco minutos a pie (the museum is five minutes away on foot)
El museo queda en el centro (the museum is in the town centre/ downtown)
El museo no queda cerca (the museum is not near)
El museo queda a doscientos metros^* (the museum is 200 meters away)
El museo queda a trescientos metros^* (the museum is 300 meters away)

Now you should practise answering the question:

¿Queda cerca el museo?

*See some commonly used length in Spanish below

*Spanish Lengths

Some expressions of length/ distance commonly used in Spanish are shown below:

	Metros	Kilómetros
cien metros	100m
doscientos metros	200m
trescientos metros	300m
cuatrocientos metros	400m
quinientos metros	500m	1/2km
seiscientos metros	600m
setecientos metros	700m
ochocientos metros	800m
novecientos metros	900m
mil metros/ un kilómetro	1000m	1km