Στο σαλόνι το μαύρο ταιριάζει με τον μπλε καναπέ.

Στο is the contracted form of σε το.

• σε = in / at / to
• το = the for a neuter noun

So:

• σε το σαλόνι → στο σαλόνι

This contraction is completely standard in Modern Greek. In this sentence, στο σαλόνι means in the living room.

Greek σε covers several meanings that English splits up:

• to
• in
• at
• sometimes on

So σε + noun can express location as well as direction.

Here, στο σαλόνι means in the living room, not to the living room. The exact meaning depends on context.

Here το μαύρο means the color black or simply black as a color.

Greek often uses the article + adjective to talk about a color as a thing in itself:

• το μαύρο = black
• το μπλε = blue
• το κόκκινο = red

So το μαύρο is not describing a hidden noun here; it is functioning like a noun itself: black.

When Greek uses a color word as an abstract color name, it is very often put in the neuter singular.

So:

• το μαύρο = black as a color
• το άσπρο = white as a color

If it were describing an actual noun, the adjective would agree with that noun:

• ο μαύρος καναπές = the black sofa
• η μαύρη καρέκλα = the black chair
• το μαύρο τραπέζι = the black table

But here the word means black in general, so neuter το μαύρο is natural.

Ταιριάζει comes from the verb ταιριάζω.

In this sentence it means:

• matches
• goes with
• goes well with

So το μαύρο ταιριάζει με τον μπλε καναπέ means that black is a good match for the blue sofa.

Form-wise, ταιριάζει is:

• present tense
• 3rd person singular

So literally: it matches / it goes well.

Because ταιριάζω often takes με when you mean match with or go with.

So:

• ταιριάζει με... = it matches with... / it goes with...

Examples:

• Το κόκκινο ταιριάζει με το άσπρο.
• Αυτό το τραπέζι ταιριάζει με τις καρέκλες.

In natural English, we often drop with and just say Black goes with the blue sofa, but in Greek με is the normal structure here.

Because after με, the noun goes in the accusative case.

The dictionary form is:

• ο καναπές = the sofa

But here we need the accusative:

• τον καναπέ = the sofa

So:

• nominative: ο μπλε καναπές
• accusative: τον μπλε καναπέ

That is why the article changes from ο to τον, and καναπές becomes καναπέ.

Because this noun changes form in the accusative singular.

Its pattern is:

• ο καναπές = nominative singular
• τον καναπέ = accusative singular

This is a common pattern with masculine nouns ending in -ές.

So in the sentence, με τον μπλε καναπέ is correct because με requires the accusative.

Μπλε is one of the color words in Modern Greek that is usually indeclinable. That means it keeps the same form even when the noun around it changes for gender, number, or case.

For example:

• ο μπλε καναπές
• τον μπλε καναπέ
• η μπλε καρέκλα
• το μπλε τραπέζι

The article and noun show the grammar, but μπλε stays μπλε.

In spoken Greek, the final -ν of words like τον, την, and έναν is sometimes dropped in certain environments, but it is kept before some sounds.

Here it stays because the next word begins with μπ:

• τον μπλε καναπέ

So this is the expected form. For a learner, the safest choice is usually to keep the -ν in writing unless you have specifically learned the dropping rules.

Yes. Greek word order is more flexible than English.

This sentence starts with Στο σαλόνι to set the scene first:

• Στο σαλόνι το μαύρο ταιριάζει με τον μπλε καναπέ.

But you could also say:

• Το μαύρο ταιριάζει με τον μπλε καναπέ στο σαλόνι.

Both are understandable. The original version sounds natural because it begins with the location: In the living room...

No. In Modern Greek, σαλόνι usually means:

• living room
• sitting room
• lounge

Even though it looks related to English salon, in this sentence it clearly means living room.

A rough pronunciation guide is:

Sto sa-LO-ni to MAV-ro te-ree-A-zee me ton ble ka-na-PE

A few useful notes:

• αι in ταιριάζει sounds like e
• μπ in μπλε is pronounced like b
• stress falls where the accent marks are:
  • σαλόνι
  • μαύρο
  • ταιριάζει
  • καναπέ

In some contexts, το μαύρο could refer to the black one if the noun is understood from context.

But in this sentence, because it is talking about matching in a room and then mentions τον μπλε καναπέ, the natural reading is the color black.

So here the learner should understand it as black as a color, not the black thing.