"A kanapé a nappaliban van, a fotel mellett."
Translation:The couch is in the living room, next to the armchair.
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Kanapé is for sitting, heverő is for sleeping (comes from hever - to lie). A Google image search of either word should help you visualise it.
Pamlag is another word you might find interesting.
I thought your answer clarified it, until I looked at the Hungarian Ikea site. Lots of kanapé, also lots of kanapéágy, even fotelágy, but no heverő?!? http://www.ikea.com/hu/hu/catalog/categories/departments/living_room/10663/
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Hui, interesting. Okay, not an expert (and not a native), but considering that this discussion was the first time I heard of heverő and the dictionaries I use are generally a bit scarce on that word, I'd say heverő simply isn't used all that much. Probably an older word.
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A kanapé a nappaliban a fotel mellett van.
I guess you want to know if you can interpret the given sentence as "the sofa in the living room", no? Not really. If you leave van behind nappaliban, you're putting focus on that one sofa, but what other sofa is supposed to be next to the armchair (which apparently is in the living room in this case) than the one that's in the living room, too?
You could also create a sub-clause if you want to make it really unambiguous: "A kanapé, amely a nappaliban van, a fotel mellett van." But that's a mouthful. :)
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Fotel is based on French fauteuil. I also believe a outdated way of writing is fotöly, which comes i assume closer to the French pronunciation.
Or simply karosszék which literally means armchair (what fotel did not originally mean, since it was once upon a time a folding chair...)
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The Arcanum lexicon notes that the spelling variant is fotőj, so you're pretty close. :)
A fotel is something different than a karosszék, even though both translate to "armchair" in English. While a karosszék is just a chair with armrests, a fotel is cushioned, more like a single-person couch.