From root: kwarto
Usage Note
Kwartuhan refers to a place or section of a house specifically designed or partitioned to contain multiple rooms for rent.
Examples
" Maliit ang kwartuhan namin. "
Natural Translation
Our rooming area is small.
Literal Translation
Small the rooming-area our.
" Malinis ang kanilang kwartuhan. "
Natural Translation
Their rooming area is clean.
Literal Translation
Clean their rooming-area.
" Sa likod ng kanilang bahay ay may kwartuhan na pinauupahan nila sa mga manggagawa mula sa probinsya. "
Natural Translation
Behind their house is a rooming area that they rent out to workers from the province.
Literal Translation
At back of their house there-is rooming-area that rent-out they to the workers from the province.
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