📖LearnModule 6 · Lesson 18 of 30Independent User · CEFR B1, first halfUnit 4 · Sentences that breathe
donde — the place where
Module 6 of the free Spanish course (CEFR B1, first half), lesson 18 of 30: Donde glues a place to its sentence: la ciudad donde vivo (the city where I live). On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
donde
where (relative)
DOHN-deh
la ciudad donde vivo
the city where I live
lah syoo-DAHD DOHN-deh BEE-boh
el día en que
the day when
ehl DEE-ah ehn keh
el barrio
the neighborhood
ehl BAH-rryoh
el país
the country
ehl pah-EES
el lugar
the place
ehl loo-GAR
nací en
I was born in
nah-SEE ehn
la casa donde nací
the house where I was born
lah KAH-sah DOHN-deh nah-SEE
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
Donde glues a place to its sentence: la ciudad donde vivo (the city where I live), el barrio donde nací (the neighborhood where I was born). No accent: the question word dónde has one, the relative donde does not.
Y también · And also
For TIME Spanish uses en que or cuando: el día en que llegué (the day I arrived), el año en que nos mudamos. Es el país donde quiero viajar. Es el día en que mi vida cambió. Place takes donde; time takes en que.
Ojo · Watch out
donde is for places; a day or a year takes en que: el día en que llegué. And the relative donde carries no accent — ¿dónde? asks, donde joins.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with donde.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 18 in Module 6 are the written half of this page.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.