Estabba, Estaban, Estabamos. Let's put Estar in the past.

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I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish.

Today we're going to start putting Estar in the past, but before we do, let's actually

learn some more nouns for places so that we can form more and more sentences entirely in

Spanish.

So the two nouns we'll learn today are the house, which is la Casa, and the place, which is el-lugar.

Casa is always feminine, and Lugar is always masculine.

That means that for casa, you always have to use feminine pronouns and articles, such as la and las.

And for Lugar, you have to use masculine pronouns and articles

such as el and los. We sometimes have our students visualize a scene where there's a house to the left,

and to the right there's a variety of places you could go when you're not at home. In our memory palaces, feminine things are always on the left, and masculine things are

always on the right, so you can make sure that they always match up.

As an example, I'm at the house would be,

I'm in la Casa.

I'm in la Casa. The word casa. The word casa is also often used without an article in phrases such as in casa, which translate in English as at home.

So, for example, you might say, they are at home.

Estan in casa. Estan in casa.

Estan in casa.

And how would you say, we are at the place?

We're in the

We're

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