Household & Furniture
Household & Furniture
Every noun in this lesson carries a gender you'll need to guess correctly before you even reach for an adjective — a good checkpoint to practice the gender instinct you've been building since the articles lesson.
Grammar Comparison
Grammar Comparison
Gender doesn't reliably follow real-world logic
la mesa (table, fem.) but el sofá (sofa, masc.) — no object-based pattern connects them
the table, the sofa — 'the' never changes, so there's nothing to predict
As you build household vocabulary, resist the urge to look for a logical reason behind each noun's gender — la mesa and el sofá are both furniture, yet one is feminine and one is masculine, for no reason tied to the object itself. Learn each noun together with its article from the start, rather than trying to derive gender afterward.
Rooms and furniture are a good place to practice estar for location
la silla está en la cocina (the chair is in the kitchen) — estar, not ser
the chair is in the kitchen
This vocabulary set pairs naturally with your prepositions-of-place lesson: describing where furniture is located is exactly the estar-for-location pattern you already learned, now with real household nouns to practice it on.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
- English
- the table
- English
- the chair
- English
- the sofa
- English
- the bed
- English
- the kitchen
- English
- the bathroom
- English
- the door
- English
- the window
- English
- the closet / wardrobe
- English
- the lamp