Describing your Bedroom in Spanish – La Habitación

Describing your room in Spanish will be easy to do if you know how to use a few common adjectives and  the verb SER . In this lesson, we will introduce the vocabulary for common bedroom objects, as well as how to use colors and other adjectives to describe your bedroom in Spanish. We have included a lot of examples, some of them using two basic grammar topics we have not studied before: adverbs of quantity and negative sentences. Comencemos…

Vocabulary introduction: A list of common bedroom objects in Spanish

First of all, there are several ways to say bedroom, being HABITACIÓN and CUARTO the most common ones in the language. In order to describe your room in Spanish, we need to learn the vocabulary for bedroom objects first. Below, you can see some pictures of things in a room with numbers showing how to say each bedroom object in Spanish. Please try to remember some of these words as we will be using them a lot in the rest of the lesson.

Using Bedroom Objects in Spanish in Negative Sentences

There are some important grammar points to keep in mind before learning to describe your room in Spanish. Let’s start with negative sentences. Negative sentences in Spanish are called ORACIONES NEGATIVAS and they are formed by adding the word “NO” before the verb like this:

Subject + NO + verb + complement. e.g. Ella no va a la escuela.

The subject is optional most of the time, so it is possible to leave it out. Negation in questions is very similar to the way it works for sentences, although you need to be careful with question marks and give the right intonation to the question. Know that it’s more common to ask negative questions in Spanish than it is in English, e.g. ¿No tienes un ropero? (Don’t you have a closet?)

Examples of negative questions in Spanish

Describing your room in Spanish with adverbs of quantity

Now, we will talk about adverbs of quantity in Spanish or “adverbios de cantidad/grado”. In our lesson about the living room, we explained how to use adverbs such as MUCHA, POCA and others in sentences like “Hay mucha agua”. Adverbs of quantity in Spanish will be used to increase or decrease the grade of an adjective in a sentence. These adverbs are words like: MUY (very), UN POCO (a little), BASTANTE (quite), REALMENTE (really), TOTALMENTE (totally) and PARCIALMENTE (partially).

Imagine we want to say something like “This pillow is really comfortable” in Spanish. To do so, we can say “Esta almohada es realmente cómoda” with words like REALMENTE or MUY to increase the value of the adjective CÓMODA. There are many adverbs of quantity, but the ones we mentioned before are normally used in everyday conversations. Try not to confuse MUCHO with MUY in Spanish. The adverb MUY will be used before adjectives like BONITA (pretty) and MUCHO will be used before nouns like ORO (gold).

Below, there are some examples of sentences with bedroom objects and adverbs of quantity, as well as things we have discussed in other lessons such as demonstrative adjectives in Spanish (ESE/ESTE/ESTOS/AQUELLA…) and also a few important, irregular verbs in Spanish: TENER, SER, ESTAR and IR. TENER will be used to say what objects you have in your room in Spanish, ESTAR to say where an item is located or how the room looks in a given moment, SER for general descriptions and IR as an auxiliary for the future in Spanish. Click on PLAY to listen to the examples.

Examples of sentences with bedroom objects in Spanish

Describing your bedroom in Spanish and its objects

Now that we know how to say a few common bedroom objects in Spanish, it is time to use them for describing your bedroom in Spanish. First, you should use a few adjectives in Spanish like BONITO, CÓMODO, ESPACIOSO, PEQUEÑO, GRANDE, VENTILADO, MODERNO, LUJOSO…” and so on. In order to make sentences with those adjectives, we will use SER in its form ES and the verb TENER in its form TIENE.

You could also use some of the vocabulary we have covered in other lessons, for example: parts of the house(ventana, puerta, baño…), some colors and preposition of place in to indicate the location of the bedroom objects in Spanish. Here are two audio examples describing a bedroom in Spanish using the vocabulary for bedroom objects, as well as the negation and Spanish adverbs of quantity:

Example No. 1 – Describing my room in Spanish

Mi habitación es grande. Tiene una ventana hacia el patio de la casa. Las paredes son de color verde, mi color favorito. Hay suficiente ventilación y tengo muchas cosas en el cuarto. Tengo una cama un poco grande y varias almohadas suaves. La cama no tiene cabecera. Hay una mesa de noche junto a la cama, y sobre la mesa de noche hay una lámpara roja. También tengo un guardarropa y hay un baño dentro de la habitación.

Example No. 2

Mi habitación es pequeña, pero bastante moderna. Mi cama es cómoda y tiene una cabecera elegante. El colchón de la cama es realmente suave y duermo como rey. Es un cuarto sin ventanas, pero es bastante fresco. Las paredes son de color blanco con detalles en gris y verde claro. Tengo un gavetero y hay varias fotografías colgadas en la pared. No tengo baño en el cuarto.

Listening Activity: Describing a room in Spanish

Key expressions in the conversation:

• ¿Por qué (tú) no….? means “Why don´t you…?”
• No te preocupes means “Don´t worry”

Related Spanish Worksheets:

• House objects and Furniture in Spanish – PDF Worksheet
• The House and Prepositions of Place – Spanish Worksheet PDF
• Rooms and Parts of the House in Spanish: PDF Worksheet