Home x House: Como utilizar?

There is a big difference between the words house and home. A house is a structure or the physical place where you live in. A home is more of abstract or sentimental but can also be a physical place. Think of it this way. You use house to describe the actual place but you use home when you describe the place where a family or a person lives.

Which reminds me...

"A House Is Not A Home"

A chair is still a chair
Even when there's no one sittin' there
But a chair is not a house
And a house is not a home
When there's no one there to hold you tight
And no one there you can kiss goodnight
Woah girl

A room is a still a room
Even when there's nothin' there but gloom
But a room is not a house
And a house is not a home
When the two of us are far apart
And one of us has a broken heart

Now and then I call your name
And suddenly your face appears
But it's just a crazy game
When it ends, it ends in tears

Pretty little darling, have a heart
Don't let one mistake keep us apart
I'm not meant to live alone
Turn this house into a home
When I climb the stairs and turn the key
Oh, please be there
Sayin' that you're still in love with me, yeah

I'm not meant to live alone
Turn this house into a home
I climb the stairs and turn the key
Oh, please be there, still in love
I said, still in love, still in love with me, yeah

Are you gonna be in love with me?
I want you and need you to be, yeah
Still in love with me
Say you're gonna be in love with me
It's drivin' me crazy to think
That my baby couldn't be still in love with me

Are you gonna be? Say you're gonna be
Are you gonna be? Say you're gonna be
Are you gonna be? Say you're gonna be
Well well, well well

Still in love, so in love, still in love with me
Are you gonna be?
Say that you're gonna be
Still in love with me, yeah

With me, oh
Still in love with me, yeah

Explicando um pouco...

Quando falamos no lugar onde nós vivemos, dizemos que é nosso lar, independente se é casa ou apartamento, portanto usamos "home" quando falamos de nós mesmos ("my home", "I'm going home", "this is my home", etc.)

Quando falamos onde o ouvinte ou uma terceira pessoa vive, falamos sobre a casa ou apartamento desta pessoa, não falamos em lar, portanto se usa "your house" ou "your flat", etc.
Uma exceção a isto é quando perguntamos onde alguém mora, aí podemos usar "Where's your home?", especialmente se não soubermos se é casa ou apartamento.

Porém, ao generalizarmos (como em ditados populares, por exemplo), dependendo do contexto também se usa "home", como, por exemplo, no ditado "Home is where you can hang your hat" ("(Um) Lar é onde você pode pendurar seu chapeu", em tradução literal)

Olá T@ta,


You´re welcome!


All the best!

Tks, Donay!

You're the best!

Take Care

Recomendo:

1) I'm going home.
2) I want to go home.
3) I'm going to your house.
4) I want to go to your house.

Bons estudos.