en casa

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

en casa

1. home

   ¿Hay alguien en casa?

   Anybody home?

2. at home, back home, back at home
3. 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