House & Home
വീടും ഭവനവും
Rooms and furniture vocabulary, plus the everyday verb habiter (to live/reside), which behaves a little differently from what you might expect before the name of a city.
Grammar Comparison
വ്യാകരണ താരതമ്യം
habiter can skip the preposition before a city, much like Malayalam's locative suffix
J'habite Paris. or J'habite à Paris. (I live in Paris — à is optional before a city)
ഞാൻ പാരീസിൽ താമസിക്കുന്നു.
habiter can be used transitively (habiter Paris) or with the preposition à (habiter à Paris) — both are correct and common, which is more flexible than always needing a separate word for 'in'. Malayalam already builds that idea straight into the noun: the locative suffix -ൽ (-il) attaches directly onto the place name, so 'Paris' plus -ൽ gives 'in Paris' with no separate preposition at all — closer to the bare habiter Paris than to the à version.
Vocabulary
വാക്കുകൾ
- Malayalam
- വീട്veedu
- English
- the house
- Malayalam
- ഫ്ലാറ്റ്flaattu
- English
- the apartment
- Malayalam
- അടുക്കളadukkala
- English
- the kitchen
- Malayalam
- കിടപ്പുമുറിkidappumuri
- English
- the bedroom
- Malayalam
- കുളിമുറിkulimuri
- English
- the bathroom
- Malayalam
- ഇരിപ്പുമുറിirippumuri
- English
- the living room
- Malayalam
- പൂന്തോട്ടംpoonthottam
- English
- the garden
- Malayalam
- താമസിക്കുകthaamasikkuka
- English
- to live, reside
- Malayalam
- വാടകvaadaka
- English
- the rent
- Malayalam
- താമസം മാറ്റുകthaamasam maattuka
- English
- to move (house)
- Malayalam
- ഫർണിച്ചർfarnichar
- English
- the furniture
- Malayalam
- താക്കോൽthaakkol
- English
- the key