Love-Spanish.com: Is Your House Near?

Monday, 30 September 2013

Is Your House Near?

Introduction

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

SCENARIO

Imagine you are talking a relative, a friend, a work colleague about your home. Not knowing where you live, the other person asks you: "is your home near?"

In Spanish, the other person could choose to be less formal and say:

¿Queda cerca tu casa?

Alternatively, he/ she could choose to be more formal and say:

¿Queda cerca su casa?

OUR TIP

The question is an invitation for you to say how far away your house 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:

Mi casa queda lejos (my house is far away)
Mi casa queda bastante lejos (my house is quite far away)
Mi casa queda muy lejos (my house is very far away)
Mi casa queda cerca (my house is near)
Mi casa queda bastante cerca (my house is quite near)
Mi casa queda muy cerca (my house is very near)
Mi casa queda a la vuelta de la esquina (my house is around the corner)
Mi casa queda al final de la calle (my house is at the end of the street/ road)
Mi casa queda a dos manzanas (my house is two blocks away)
Mi casa queda a dos cuadras (my house is two blocks away)
Mi casa queda a cinco minutos a pie (my house is five minutes away on foot)
Mi casa queda en el centro (my house is in the town centre/ downtown)
Mi casa no queda cerca (my house is not near)
Mi casa queda a doscientos metros^* (my house is 200 meters away)
Mi casa queda a trescientos metros^* (my house is 300 meters away)
Mi casa queda a dos kilómetros^* (my house is 2 kilometres away)

Now you should practise answering the question:

¿Queda cerca tu casa?

*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