House & Home
ఇల్లు
Rooms and furniture vocabulary is where German's two-way prepositions get real daily use, constantly forcing a choice between motion and static location — a distinction Telugu's single locative postposition -లో doesn't need to make.
Grammar Comparison
వ్యాకరణ పోలిక
Furniture placement is the natural home of the -లో locative postposition
Der Tisch steht im Wohnzimmer. (The table stands in the living room — dative, static location)
బల్ల హాల్లో ఉంది. (table living-room-లో is — locative suffix -లో)
Describing a house is mostly static description, not motion, so expect German's dative case constantly here — im Wohnzimmer, im Schlafzimmer, in der Küche, all dative. Telugu sidesteps the case question altogether: its all-purpose postposition -లో attaches directly after the room name — హాల్లో, పడకగదిలో, వంటగదిలో — whether the surrounding sentence is about resting there or (in other contexts) moving into it, since Telugu doesn't split locative marking by a motion/location distinction the way German's two-way prepositions do. This lesson is really a chance to drill the 'location, not motion' half of the two-way prepositions lesson with vocabulary you'll use constantly.
Vocabulary
పదజాలం
- Telugu
- హాలుhaalu
- English
- living room
- Telugu
- పడకగదిpadakagadi
- English
- bedroom
- Telugu
- వంటగదిvantagadi
- English
- kitchen
- Telugu
- స్నానాల గదిsnaanala gadi
- English
- bathroom
- Telugu
- కుర్చీkurchee
- English
- chair
- Telugu
- మంచంmancham
- English
- bed
- Telugu
- అల్మారాalmara
- English
- cupboard / closet