Furniture. Absolute Beginner #4

Jacqueline asked me to produce this beginner’s show.

She wanted to know what the furniture in a room is called in German.

So let’s start our tour through a virtual apartment.

If you enter a typical German apartment, you open the door, die Türe, die Türe, and get into a corridor.

It is called Flur.

Here you can take your shoes off and put your coat on a hanger.

The place to store your shoes and coat is called Garderobe.

Garderobe.

It is the cloakroom.

But now off on our tour!

We start with the living-room.

It is called Wohnzimmer in German.

Wohnzimmer.

In the living-room there’s usually a place to sit, for example a couch.

We also call it a couch in German.

Or sofa.

If you sit on a sofa and want to drink something, you put it in front of you on a small table.

That table is called Couchtisch.

Couch-Tisch.

In some living-rooms there’s also a space for dining.

But many homes have a separate area that is called Esszimmer.

Dining room.

Ess-Zimmer.

The main piece of furniture here is a table.

It is called Tisch in German.

Tisch.

You sit at a table.

And you sit on chairs.

Chairs are called Stühle.

One chair is a Stuhl.

More chairs are Stühle.

Stühle.

We go through to the bedroom.

It is called Schlafzimmer in German.

Schlafzimmer.

The main thing in a bedroom is the bed, of course.

And that one is easy to remember, it is called Bett in German.

Bett.

Beside the bed there is a small table to put books on.

It is called a Nachttisch.

Nacht-Tisch.

On it there is a lamp.

The Nachttischlampe.

Nacht-Tisch-Lampe.

You put your clothes in a wardrobe, it is called Schrank in German.

Schrank.

What more is there to tell you? If you want to store your books somewhere, you put them on a shelf.

A shelf is a Regal.

Regal.

I think that’s enough for today.

Have fun learning German!