ser v. estar

Question

In the phrase "Barcelona is in Spain", is it correct to say "Barcelona está en españa" or "Barcelona es en españa"? Thank you for any guidance you may have.

Location and Condition - (LoCo) uses estar... 'how you feel and where you are, that is when you use estar". - katydew, Oct 5, 2013

@katy...now your 'estatua' statement makes sense :-) - 0095ca4c, Oct 6, 2013

Answer 1

Está

Estar is used to give the location of anything regardless of time scale.

Estoy en Barcelona - I am in Barcelona

Barcelona está en España.

Note: If you are using España to name the actual country, then it should have a capital E.

As far as I know, España means only Spain. - kirk1, Oct 5, 2013

Not quite, la reunion es en la oficina (not está) ;) - Kiwi-Girl, Apr 6, 2014

Answer 2

Just remember that estar is for the location of people and things including places.

But the exception is that ser is used for events.

El concierto es en el parque.

La reunion es en mi oficina.

:Very true, Kiwigirl :) - FELIZ77, Apr 6, 2014

Answer 3

The previous answer and comments are helpful and true; however, note that ser is used if the implied (unchanging) condition of Barcelona is directly stated. . .

Barcelona is a city in Spain. ~ Barcelona es una ciudad en España.

:) - ian-hill, Apr 6, 2014

:) - FELIZ77, Apr 6, 2014

Answer 4

Barcelona is a city in Spain. ~ Barcelona es una ciudad en España.

Sí, pero sobre todo, Barcelona es una ciudad y en cuanto al uso del verbo ser, no importa la ubicación. Es decir que se usa el verbo ser no para indicar dónde está situada Barcelona sino para indicar, o sea, definir qué es Barcelona: Barcelona es una ciudad o, dicho de otra forma, Barcelona = una ciudad (grande, turística, sucia, moderna, histórica, ruidosa, de España, en España, y con muchos otros atributos).

Answer 5

We just learned in Spanish that even if Barcelona will stay in Spain and not go away to another country, it is still in the estar form.

Therefore like some previous answerers said, it is "Barcelona está en españa." Thank you, J_G_Duff for making the comment about the capital E. I was about to think that because days of the weeks and months weren't capitalized, countries sometimes didn't need to be capitalized in Spanish either.