Octavo or ocho (steet number)

Question

When you talking about the numbero the street you live in, do you use the number? ie: eighth street calle ocho calle octvo

Answer 1

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Street names are given differently in English than in Spanish. In English it would be 8th street, but in Spanish it would be Calle Ocho.

Answer 2

In Colombia, I lived near 7th Avenue. We always referred to it as "La Avenida Septima", or (since it's a major street in Bogotá) simple "La Septima." I asked the taxi drivers to take me to "Calle Sesenta y nueve con la Septima".

Sorry, I'm not sure of the correct capitalizations, especially with numbers in street names.

Answer 3

In Ecuador it is definitely Avenida Octava (the street signs say 8va). . .my address is Avenida Segunda y Calle Segunda Sur.

Answer 4

In Guatemala we say: Octava avenida (8a av.) or Quinta calle (5a.calle). If called by name we say: Avenida Bolivar, Calle del Reformador...etc.

Answer 5

Just a small side note to point out that in the UK we rarely express our streets as ordinal numbers as occurs in the US. I know of very few examples . House numbers are in the cardinal form as they are in Spain. A small difference is the order in which the address line is written.

• In England my address would have been 13 Oregano Street.....(for example)
• In Spain I would write it as Calle Oregano 13 or more commonly C/Oregano 13

There will, of course, be exceptions to this in various places but this is a reasonable assessment I believe.

Answer 6

We translate ordinal numbers as nominal ones if we talk about a street. If I were to translate "21st st", I'd say "calle veintiuno". However, if we were talking about an avenue, like 5th Avenue in Manhattan, I'd definitely translate that as "quinta avenida"