Mandarin Tutorial: Home Furnishings

Question

Moon · Answer

${\bf{Vocabulary:}}$
starting with nouns first, I tried to group these by category
厕所	(cè suǒ) bathroom (more often used in the context of needing to go to the bathroom)
卫生间 (wèi shēng jiān) bathroom (more often used in the context of the room itself)
卫生纸 (wèi shēng zhǐ) toilet paper
毛巾	(máo jīn) towel
架 (jià) rack, in this context, like a towel rack (毛巾架)

床 (chuáng) bed
床单	(chuáng dān) bedsheets

桌子	(zhuō zi) table
瓶 (píng) can mean bottle but in this context means vase
花 (huār) vase

椅子	(yǐ zi) chairs
把 (bǎ) measure word for chairs

写字台 (xiě zì tái) desk/writing desk
床头柜 (chuáng tóu guì) nightstand

画儿	(huàr) painting/picture
幅 (fú) counting word for painting/picture

柜子 	(guì zi) cabinets/cupboards
抽屉柜 (chōu ti guì) cabinets/cupboards
排 (pái) measure word for lockers/similar storage objects

台 (dēng) general term for lamp/light
台灯	(tái dēng) desk/table lamp
壁灯	(bì dēng) wall lamp
吊灯	(diào dēng) ceiling lamp
开关	(kāi guān) switch, like for a fan or a light

电视	(diàn shì) TV
台 (tái) counting word for TVs

窗户	(chuāng hu) window
窗帘	(chuāng lián) curtains

沙发	(shā fā) sofa

Moon · Answer

${\bf{Vocabulary:}}$
going with modifiers next
干净	(gān jìng) clean, as an adjective
习惯	(xí guàn) accustomed to. you'd put this between the subject and the verb to show that the subject is accustomed to some action/quality/etc. ex: 我们习惯吃中国反 = we are accustomed to eating Chinese food
单个	(dān gè) individual, used to emphasize separated units of something.  ex: 单个数字 = individual numbers
明亮	(míng liàng) bright, used in a physical sense of the word
雪白	(xuě bái) white, or more literally, white as snow
等等	(děng deng) and so on, used like "etc."

Moon · Answer

${\bf{Vocabulary:}}$
verbs: 
搬 (bān) to move, like moving to a new location 
送过去 (sòng guò qu) to send over

directions/prepositions:
旁边	(páng biān) next to, besides
对面	(duì miàn) opposite side
右边 (yòu bian) to the left of
左边 (zuǒ bian) to the right of

misc expressions that are part of the unit but don't really belong w/ the other words
胖机会 (pàng jī huì) fat chance, used exactly like it is in English
废话	(fèi huà) nonsense
说不定 (shuōbudìng) maybe
数字	(shù zì) numbers
一位数 (yí wèi shǔ) as individual numbers, context being that you can say phone numbers/room numbers/etc. as separate digits, so instead of saying 626 as "six hundred and twenty six) you can say it as "six two six"
它 (tā) it

Moon · Answer

${\bf{Grammar:}}$
过: put after a verb to indicate action occurred in the past
把: put between subject and object to indicate that the subject acts on the object
ex: 我把书打开看了 = I opened the book to have a look
写着: put between preposition and location to indicate a location
桌子上面写着 = on the table

用完了 = used up
地 = put between modifier and verb 
ex: 一位数一位数地说 = to say separately as separate numbers
着 = put after verb to indicate that a status is on-going
有 vs 是
both can indicate the location/presence of something but 有 is more often used to indicate that there is some thing present (as opposed to not being present), and 是 is more specific and indicates the location of an object
最有___的是, where an adjective goes into the blank. = what is most ___ that...
___下去了 = ongoing action of ___
听起来 = used to indicate an action is just starting
以为 = to believe/think