Furniture

Lesson Overview: Furniture and Location Prepositions

This lesson introduces basic vocabulary about furniture commonly found in a home, paired with essential French prepositions of place to describe their locations. It is designed for beginners at the A1 level, focusing on practical expressions needed to talk about rooms and furnishings.

Key Vocabulary: Furniture and Prepositions

You will learn important furniture words such as l'armoire (wardrobe), la chaise (chair), la lampe (lamp), la table (table), le canapé (sofa), and le lit (bed).

Alongside, the lesson covers prepositions of place that indicate position and spatial relations. These include dans (in), sur (on), entre (between), and sous (under).

Describing Furniture Placement

Learn to construct sentences that describe where furniture is located within different rooms, such as the living room, bedroom, or kitchen. For example: La lampe est sur la table du salon. (The lamp is on the living room table.) or Le canapé est à côté de la porte. (The sofa is next to the door.)

Practical Dialogues for Everyday Situations

The course includes dialogues that model typical conversations about furniture arrangement, helping you practice situational vocabulary and sentence structures:

• Describing furniture in the living room
• Asking and answering about furniture in the bedroom
• Organizing and discussing kitchen furniture placement

Verb Practice with "Ouvrir" and Related Verbs

In this lesson, you will also practice present tense conjugations of verbs useful for describing actions related to furniture, such as ouvrir (to open), trouver (to find), installer (to install/set up), and poser (to put/place).

Interesting Notes on Language Differences

Unlike English, French uses prepositions such as sur and sous quite similarly to “on” and “under,” but be mindful that placement expressions often come after the noun they relate to, differing slightly in order. For example, Le canapé est à côté de la porte literally translates to “The sofa is next to the door.” The verbs are conjugated to match their subjects and are often used in present tense to describe habits or current placement.

Useful expressions include:

• être sur — to be on
• être dans — to be in
• être sous — to be under
• être entre — to be between

Familiarity with these prepositions and furniture vocabulary will enable you to clearly describe spatial arrangements inside a home in French.