casa en serie
/kasa en seɾje/from spelling rules
The English phrase "tract home" is translated into Spanish as casa en serie.
This term is used to describe standardized housing developments where multiple similar homes are built by the same developer.
How does it change in a sentence?
The singular form is casa en serie and the plural form is casas en serie.
Did you know?
- Spanish uses the same term en serie for these homes as it does for electronics produced in a factory, such as producción en serie.
- In many Spanish-speaking regions, a 'tract home' development is referred to as a fraccionamiento, which comes from the verb 'fraccionar' meaning to divide or break into parts.
- The word serie comes from the Latin seriēs, which originally referred to a row of things or a sequence, like a string of beads.
Examples in context
- La vivienda es una casa de desarrollo residencial que sigue un plan de construcción común.The dwelling is a tract home that follows a common construction plan.
- La urbanización está compuesta por casas en serie de diseño similar.The housing development is composed of tract homes with a similar design.
Sources
- IPA marked “from spelling rules” is derived from standard Spanish spelling, where Wiktionary gives none.
- Word origins: Wiktionary entries casa, en, serie, CC BY-SA 4.0.
