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How do you ask 'Where is the bathroom?' in Spanish?

¿Dónde está el baño? means 'Where is the bathroom?'

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  1. ¿Dónde está la entrada?
  2. ¿Dónde está la embajada?
  3. ¿Dónde está el baño? ✔

Why: Dónde is 'where' and está is 'is'. Baño is understood nearly everywhere, in Spain and Latin America. Remember the tilde: baño is spelled with ñ.

Huh, didn't know that: FSI also teaches ¿Dónde hay un baño? meaning 'Where is there a bathroom?'

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Answer: ¿Dónde está el baño?. Dónde is 'where' and está is 'is'. Baño is understood nearly everywhere, in Spain and Latin America. Remember the tilde: baño is spelled with ñ.

  1. FSI Spanish Basic Course, Volume 1 Student Text (US government, public domain) fsi-language-courses-media.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/languages/Spanish/Basic/Volume%201/Fsi-SpanishBasicCourse-Volume1-StudentText.pdf
    Where's the bathroom? ¿Dónde está el baño?
    Checked 2026-10-10.
  2. FSI Spanish Basic Course, Volume 1 Student Text (US government, public domain) fsi-language-courses-media.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/languages/Spanish/Basic/Volume%201/Fsi-SpanishBasicCourse-Volume1-StudentText.pdf
    Where is (there) a bathroom? ¿Dónde hay un baño?
    Checked 2026-10-10.

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