the difference between cuarto de baño and baño

Question

what's the difference between cuarto de baño and baño?

Please capitalize the first letter of the sentence. - Raja-jani, Sep 28, 2013

Answer 1

Hi there,

Cuarto de baño = bathroom. This one is easy to remember because cuarto means (among other things) room, as in a room in your house.

• ¡Estás castigado, quédate en tu cuarto! - You're grounded stay in your room!

Cuarto holds the same meaning as habitación but it is used in specific cases. And your example is one of them: you cannot say habitación de baño; that would sound very weird.

Baño means a bath:

• Voy a darme un baño. I'm taking a bath (bathtub) / I'm going for a swim (beach).

But you'll usually hear from native speakers use the word baño when referring to the toilet.

• Necesito ir al baño. - I need to go to the toilet.

And sometimes we use baño when we should use cuarto de baño, just because of economy of the language (to shorten phrases):

• ¿Cuántos baños tiene esta casa? - How many bathrooms are there in this house?.
• Te pasas el día metida en el baño. - You are always stuck in the bathroom.

I hope this helped.

[Revise my English, please]

RC, you always put so much into your explanations, very nice!!! - Mainer, Sep 28, 2013

Answer 2

RelaxingCup has already given an excellent answer. I will only clarify one thing.

cuarto (Spanish) = quarter (English)

Both cuarto and quarter have several meanings; one of them is room/space.

:) - RelaxingCup, Sep 28, 2013

Answer 3

Cuarto de baño is more formal, that's all.

gracias - xiaozhi, Sep 28, 2013