Introduction
This post deals with indicating how near/ far the town hall is in Spanish, and the distance from where you are to the town hall.
SCENARIO
Imagine
you are with a
relative, a friend, a work colleague or even a complete stranger who
is looking for the town hall and asks you:
"is
the town hall near?"
In
Spanish, the other person could choose to say:
¿Queda
cerca el ayuntamiento?
OUR
TIP
The
question is an invitation for you to say how far away the town hall
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 ayuntamiento queda a doscientos metros* (the town hall is 200 meters away)
- El ayuntamiento queda a trescientos metros* (the town hall is 300 meters away)
- El ayuntamiento queda a quinientos metros* (the town hall is 500 meters away)
- El ayuntamiento queda a más de un kilómetro* (the town hall is more than one kilometre away)
- El ayuntamiento queda lejos (the town hall is far away)
- El ayuntamiento queda bastante lejos (the town hall is quite far away)
- El ayuntamiento queda muy lejos (the town hall is very far away)
- El ayuntamiento queda cerca (the town hall is near)
- El ayuntamiento queda a la vuelta de la esquina (the town hall is around the corner)
- El ayuntamiento queda al final de la calle a la izquierda (the town hall is at the end of the street/ road on the left)
- El ayuntamiento queda a dos manzanas (the town hall is two blocks away)
- El ayuntamiento queda a dos cuadras (the town hall is two blocks away)
- El ayuntamiento queda a cinco minutos a pie (the town hall is five minutes away on foot)
- El ayuntamiento queda en el centro (the town hall is in the town centre/ downtown)
- El ayuntamiento no queda cerca (the town hall is not near)
Now
you should practise answering the question:
¿Queda
cerca el ayuntamiento?
*See
some commonly used length in Spanish below
*Spanish
Lengths
Some
expressions of length/ distances commonly used in Spanish are
shown below:
- MetrosKilómetros
cien metros 100m
doscientos metros 200m
trescientos metros 300m
cuatrocientos metros 400m
quinientos metros 500m1/2kmseiscientos metros 600m
setecientos metros 700m
ochocientos metros 800m
novecientos metros 900m
mil metros/
un kilómetro1000m1km
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