en casa

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /en ˈkasa/ [ẽŋ ˈka.sa]
Syllabification: en ca‧sa

Adverb

home
¿Hay alguien en casa?
Anybody home?
at home, back home, back at home
in-house, in the house, at the house

Usage notes

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

“en casa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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