furnishing
家具
解説 Definition
furnishing は furnish（備え付ける、家具を入れる）の現在分詞・動名詞で、家具や備品を整えること、または家具・備品を指します。furnishings と複数形で、部屋に置かれた家具や装飾品全体を表すことも多いです。
Furnishing is the activity of providing a room or building with furniture and necessary equipment. It can also refer to an item placed in a room for practical use or decoration, though the plural furnishings is more common for a collection of such items.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 furnish「家具・設備を備え付ける」に -ing をそのまま加えた形で、語末は /ɪŋ/ と発音します。furnishing は「備え付けること」や個々の家具・備品、複数形 furnishings は室内の家具・装飾品全体を表す、と数による用法の違いも一緒に覚えましょう。
Connect furnishing directly with the verb furnish, meaning “to provide a room or building with furniture or equipment.” The form is made by adding -ing without changing the spelling of furnish, and the ending is pronounced /ɪŋ/. Picture an empty apartment becoming usable as beds, tables, lamps, and curtains are brought in. Furnishing can describe that process or an individual item, while furnishings commonly means all the furniture, fittings, and decorative objects in a room. The phrase the cost of furnishing an office clearly emphasizes the activity.
例文
The apartment needs basic furnishing before anyone moves in.
そのアパートは入居前に基本的な家具をそろえる必要があります。
She chose simple furnishing for the guest room.
彼女は客室にシンプルな家具を選びました。
The cost of furnishing the office was higher than the team expected.
オフィスに家具をそろえる費用は、チームの予想より高くなりました。
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furnishing の語源・成り立ち Etymology
furnishing は furnish に名詞化の -ing が付いた語で、「備えつけること／備えつけた物」の意から出た。furnish は古フランス語 fournir にさかのぼり、furniture と同根なので、「部屋を使えるよう整える物」から「家具」の意味へ広がった。
Furnishing is formed from furnish plus the noun-forming or participial suffix -ing. Furnish entered English through Old French fournir, meaning “to provide, supply, or complete.” The related noun furniture originally referred broadly to the act or result of supplying what was needed, before developing its modern association with movable household objects. Thus, furnishing may denote either the process of equipping a place or something supplied for it.
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