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"A fáradt férfi leszáll a lóról és bemegy a mosdóba."
Translation:The tired man gets off the horse and goes into the restroom.
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I answered: The tired man gets down off the horse and goes into the washroom. This was marked wrong. What is wrong with it?
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What do you understand by "washroom"? Here it is where clothes are washed rather than where there is a toilet.
We use "laundry-room" to refer to the room (usually more of a wide closet) to denote the room for doing the laundry.
In english it is quite synonymous with restroom. Though you might in an antiquated way call a room for simply washing hands. Clothes are washed in the laundry room here
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In english it is quite synonymous
I am an English native speaker of many years :-) I would not expect to find a toilet in a washroom.
Does it really matter what the place is, if it is called a bathroom he can do what he wants to do once he goes in there. Maybe he washes his hands, sits in a chair, does his laundry. All it says is he goes into that place. If it's not a toilet he would not make use of it as such. There will be a sink of some kind. He could splash water on his face to feel fresher. Was it a laundry room?
Mosdó can refer to a room in which there is washing-up stuff and toiletries, or it can refer specifically to a sink.
WC or vécé can refer to the room with the toilet in it, or to the toilet fixture itself.
This discussion always gets more confusing because depending on where you are in the English-speaking world, "toilet" may refer to the room or may refer only the actual item.
(I think that's all correct!)
Also, fürdőszoba is a room where you have bathing stuff (but in a large, modern one there's probably also a toilet there.)
