Quick answer
¿Hay sitio para una tienda pequeña?
Is there room for a small tent? La tienda means both a shop and a tent, so context does the work.
The words
| Spanish | English |
|---|---|
| el camping | the campsite |
| la tienda de campaña | the tent |
| el saco de dormir | the sleeping bag |
| la mochila | the rucksack |
| la linterna | the torch |
| la hoguera | the campfire |
| la parcela | the pitch |
| la caravana | the caravan |
| la ducha | the shower |
| la manta | the blanket |
| el mosquito | the mosquito |
| la navaja | the pocket knife |
| la cantimplora | the water bottle |
| montar | to pitch |
| acampar | to camp |
The phrases you will actually say
Worth knowing
Wild camping is not a grey area in Spain: la acampada libre is banned across most of the country and enforced hard in national parks and along the coast, with real fines, so the practical option is one of the thousands of graded campings where you book una parcela. Open fires are prohibited almost everywhere from June to October, which is why you will see prohibido hacer fuego signs on every forest track; the risk of incendios shapes local rules more than anything else. Vocabulary care: la tienda alone means shop, so say la tienda de campaña to be clear, and the verb is montar la tienda, never a literal translation of "put up". Latin America says la carpa for tent and la fogata for campfire, where Spain uses la hoguera. The related word el albergue is a hostel, useful on the Camino de Santiago.
Practice
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How do you say "the tent" unambiguously?