I can describe an apartment, say what floor I live on and what is where, ask someone to open or close the window, and tell the landlord there's no hot water.
Evim: rooms, furniture, and floors
Evim: rooms, furniture, and floors
This lesson is about the apartment: rooms and things, floors, what is where, and what to tell the landlord when something doesn't work. yataq otağı is “room for sleeping” (bedroom), qonaq otağı “room for guests” (living room).
The floor is an ordinal number + the locative: üçüncü mərtəbədə — “on the third floor”. Floors are counted as in the US: birinci mərtəbə is the first floor, at street level.
To say what is where, use the place words from module 4: stolun üstündə, çarpayının altında, şkafın içində.
açmaq is “to open” and “to turn on” (the light, the TV), bağlamaq “to close”. A definite thing takes the accusative: pəncərəni açın, işığı açın (q → ğ).
“There's no hot water” is the set phrase İsti su gəlmir (literally “hot water doesn't come”). bütün is “all, the whole”: bütün otaqlar.
Recognition only (no need to write them): paltaryuyan “washing machine”, divar “wall”, mebel “furniture”, təmiz “clean”, çirkli “dirty”, təmizləmək “to clean”.
Common mistakes:
• דüstündə stolun” → stolun üstündə: the place word comes after, unlike English “on the table”.
• דikinci mərtəbə yaşayıram” → ikinci mərtəbədə yaşayıram.
• דişıqı açın” → işığı açın.
What usually goes where
A room and the things in it.
| Room | What's there |
|---|---|
| mətbəx | soyuducu, stol, stul |
| yataq otağı | çarpayı, şkaf |
| qonaq otağı | divan, televizor |
| hamam | isti su, paltaryuyan |
Lesson notes
Evim: rooms, furniture, and floors
This lesson is about the apartment: rooms and things, floors, what is where, and what to tell the landlord when something doesn't work. yataq otağı is “room for sleeping” (bedroom), qonaq otağı “room for guests” (living room).
The floor is an ordinal number + the locative: üçüncü mərtəbədə — “on the third floor”. Floors are counted as in the US: birinci mərtəbə is the first floor, at street level.
To say what is where, use the place words from module 4: stolun üstündə, çarpayının altında, şkafın içində.
açmaq is “to open” and “to turn on” (the light, the TV), bağlamaq “to close”. A definite thing takes the accusative: pəncərəni açın, işığı açın (q → ğ).
“There's no hot water” is the set phrase İsti su gəlmir (literally “hot water doesn't come”). bütün is “all, the whole”: bütün otaqlar.
Recognition only (no need to write them): paltaryuyan “washing machine”, divar “wall”, mebel “furniture”, təmiz “clean”, çirkli “dirty”, təmizləmək “to clean”.
Common mistakes:
• דüstündə stolun” → stolun üstündə: the place word comes after, unlike English “on the table”.
• דikinci mərtəbə yaşayıram” → ikinci mərtəbədə yaşayıram.
• דişıqı açın” → işığı açın.