Around the house: light, pillow, blanket (lyset, puden, tæppet)

Same word, new meaning at home

Five words you know from around the house have a second, very common meaning.

Et lys on the table is a candle, and to lys are two candles; lys as an amount, meget lys, ikke meget lys, is light. Lyset can be either, and the situation usually decides: slukke lyset på badeværelset is turning off the light.

On the sofa en pude is usually a cushion; on the bed it is a pillow. In the same way et tæppe on the floor is a rug, and one you sleep under is a blanket.

Træ with no article is the material, usually after af: af træ, made of wood. Et træ is a tree.

A hole, a mess and a full glass

Inside a room, loftet is the ceiling. Up under the roof of a house, loftet is usually the attic.

Rodet takes no extra -t with a neuter noun: et rodet værelse, værelset er rodet.

Fylde ... med is to fill ... with.