tenement

la casa de vecindad

el bloque de departamentos

tenement(

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A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling, or idea (e.g., man, dog, house).

noun

1. (communal dwelling)

a. la casa de vecindad

(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).

(F)

We grew up in an overcrowded tenement in Mexico City.Nos criamos hacinados en una casa de vecindad en Ciudad de México.

b. la casa de vecinos

(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).

(F)

They demolished all the tenements that used to be here.Demolieron todas las casas de vecinos que antes había aquí.

c. el conventillo

(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).

(M)

(Southern Cone)

Dogs were rooting through the garbage in the alley behind the tenement.Los perros escarbaban en la basura en el callejón detrás del conventillo.

d. la vecindad

(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).

(F)

Regionalism used in Mexico

(Mexico)

The other residents in our tenement would look out for our kids.Los otros residentes de nuestra vecindad velaban por nuestros hijos.

2. (block of apartments)

a. el bloque de departamentos

(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).

(M)

Regionalism used in Latin America: all the countries in South America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Does not include Spain.

(Latin America)

When I was a kid, we lived in a five-story brick tenement in the Bronx.De niño vivíamos en un bloque de departamentos de ladrillo de cinco pisos en el Bronx.

b. el bloque de pisos

(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).

(M)

Regionalism used in Spain

(Spain)

Tenements were built to house the waves of immigrants that were arriving.Se construyeron bloques de pisos para alojar a la ola de inmigrantes que llegaba.

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