en casa
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]- home
- ¿Hay alguien en casa?
- Anybody home?
- at home, back home, back at home
- in-house, in the house, at the house
Usage notes
[edit]- Generally, you should use a casa with verbs that imply movement toward one's home such as ir, llegar and regresar/volver. You most often would use en casa for verbs that imply a static state such as estar, tener and dejar.
Further reading
[edit]- “en casa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10