"Ni ne havas meblojn. Ni sidas kaj kuŝas sur la planko."

Translation: We do not have any pieces of furniture. We sit and lie down on the floor.

[cdub4language]

Like a college grad who just moved into a new apartment!

[aleksescomu]

Mebloj venos... iam xD

[Wattsin]

Woah! this looks exactly like a house I've been to sans furniture.

[p_skully]

Mi loĝas en Japanio.. Mi havas meblojn, sed mi dormas sur la planko.. ㄱ_ㄱ;

[JordiFaxon]

1 Lingot=1 Less Person being indirectly forced to lie on the ground

[KubisFowler]

Like we do in India :-)

[Adaginy]

Etymology seekers -- German for furniture is Möbel. The ö is between an "oh" and "ey".

[TobyBartels]

All of these derive from Latin ‘mobile’ (same meaning as the English word), as opposed to the building and grounds, which in some languages are called words derived from ‘immobile’.

[IgorPetruk2]

And "mebli" in Ukrainian (plural)

[JakubK666]

Did Zamenhof speak German though? Furniture is "meble" (pl.) in Polish.

[jjjosenaldo]

And in Brazilian Portuguese it is móvel, close to the German one.

[Voynich1024]

[Raztastic]

"Another translation: down We do not have any pieces of furniture. We sit and lie on the floor." I think that suggested translation is inherently flawed.

[tacit-blue]

how so?

[domsalazar0]

I don't know if it matters if you put the "down" option with "sit down" or "lie down"...

[maxkoryukov]

meblo - for one item. In Russian we have a very similar word мебель . But мебель is for meblaro -- furniture

[lordef]

But etago is floor??

[AdolfStein1]

'Etaĝo' is floor in the sense of 'level'. Like in "...The third floor the four-storey building."

[Kthulhu1]

Vivi la veran milenijan vivon!

[HWF10]

Mi konas tian senton... ;-;

[Littoralis]

Why the following answer is incorrect?
We don't have a furniture. We sit and lie down on the floor.
Isn't article a an indication of any?

[Rae.F]

No, "furniture" by itself is a collective noun and does not take the indefinite article. You need to say "any furniture" here.

[mark6662]

Why meblojn instead of mebloj? Were is the action?

[jengaship]

havas

[DerekWaghe1]

Is there a reason there's "planko" for floors in this lesson but also "etagxo" for floor? Does "etagxo" mean "levels", for example: there's 136 "etagxoj" in a skyscraper but they each have their own "planko"?

[Rae.F]

According to AdolfStein1 in the comments on this page, yes.

"Etaĝo" is "floor" in the sense of stage/level/story. It comes from the French étage.

"Planko" is "floor" in the sense of being a surface. It derives from the English "plank".

[DerekWaghe1]

Thanks! Going to reply to this post, I suddenly realized this question has already been answered....oops. I had tried to see if it was, but there was too many comments so I gave up and asked anyways. Mdr! (multa da ridoj)

[CoreyGraha7]

Ni acxetu meblojn por ili.

[QuirkyCake]

infero ne... Ĉu vi vivas tiel?

[fasnix]

I enter the right answer, but it still says 'wrong'

[errant1]

Kia malmola...

[hodges.wt]

Ni estas malriĉa.

[B.UCKETTT]

FLOORGANG OUGH

[SzymonRuci]

why is it Nominative? It looks more of a Genitive to me :l

[Rae.F]

It's accusative because it's the direct object of a transitive verb. What do we (not) have? Furniture.

[SzymonRuci]

(I meant accusative* not nominative lol)

[mark6662]

Why is it meblojn, instead of mebloj?

[AdolfStein1]

'Havas' is the verb.

[hodges.wt]

Ni estas malriĉa

[memlerninto]

Reminds me of Steve Jobs.