"The women have to enter the house."
Translation:Las mujeres tienen que entrar a la casa.
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Many verbs just have prepositions that go with them in certain applications, and you just need to learn them. You can "entrar a la casa" or "entrar en la casa," the former being common usage in Latin American.
Like rspreng said, you have to remember not only entrar, but the whole term "entrar a ---- entrar en". If it helps, think of the "a" or "en" as describing what you're entering.
I think of the preposition 'a' in this context as linking the verb to the object. (entrar -casa) if that helps.
Why is it "a la casa" and not "al casa", which was correct in a previous version of the same question?
I do not think you remember it correctly. There are only two contractions: (1) a + el = al and (2) de + el = del. So both are only for masculine definite article (el) and casa is female. Sure it wasn't for "al hogar". Btw just learning here.
