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Furniture

Furnished flats, flat-pack boxes and second-hand listings all run on the same twenty words, and most of them turn up on day one of a rental.

Quick answer

El piso viene con muebles.

The flat comes furnished. El mueble is one piece of furniture, and the plural los muebles covers the lot.

The words

SpanishEnglish
el mueblethe piece of furniture
la mesathe table
la sillathe chair
el sillónthe armchair
el sofáthe sofa
la camathe bed
el armariothe wardrobe
la estanteríathe shelving unit
el cajónthe drawer
la lámparathe lamp
la alfombrathe rug
el espejothe mirror
la cortinathe curtain
montarto assemble
colocarto put in place

The phrases you will actually say

El piso viene con muebles.The flat comes furnished.
Necesito una mesa más grande para el salón.I need a bigger table for the living room.
¿Me ayudas a montar la estantería?Will you help me assemble the shelving unit?
El armario no cabe por la puerta.The wardrobe does not fit through the door.
Vamos a colocar el sofá delante de la ventana.We are going to put the sofa in front of the window.

Worth knowing

El sofá is masculine despite the final a, like el sistema and el día, so it is un sofá cómodo. Keep la silla and el sillón apart: the second is not a big chair in general but specifically an armchair. Regional vocabulary matters here. In Spain a fitted wardrobe is el armario empotrado, while much of Latin America says el clóset; Mexico often uses la recámara for bedroom where Spain says el dormitorio or la habitación. For assembly, montar is the verb for putting flat-pack together, while construir would sound like building a house. When a rental advert says amueblado, the furniture stays; sin amueblar in Spain can mean genuinely empty, sometimes without so much as light fittings, so it is worth asking what is included.

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