tsukue o kabegiwa ni oku to, heya o motto hiroku tsukaemasu.

If you put the desk by the wall, you can use the room more spaciously.

Breakdown of tsukue o kabegiwa ni oku to, heya o motto hiroku tsukaemasu.

• を: direct object particle
• と: conditional particle
• 部屋へや: room
• もっと: more

Questions & Answers about tsukue o kabegiwa ni oku to, heya o motto hiroku tsukaemasu.

What does 壁ぎわ mean, and how is it read?

壁ぎわ is read かべぎわ.

It means by the wall, along the wall, or right next to the wall.

It is often written as 壁際 in kanji, but 壁ぎわ is also very common in learner-friendly writing because 際 can be harder to read.

So in this sentence:

机を壁ぎわに置く
= put the desk by the wall

Why is に used after 壁ぎわ?

に marks the place where something is put.

With verbs of placement like 置く, に often shows the destination or location where the object ends up.

So:

• 机を壁ぎわに置く = put the desk at/by the wall
• 本を机に置く = put the book on the desk

Here:

• 机を = the desk is the thing being moved/placed
• 壁ぎわに = the place where it is placed

Why is を used with 机?

Because 机 is the direct object of 置く.

置く means to put or to place, so the thing being placed takes を.

• 机を置く = place the desk
• 本を置く = place a book

In this sentence:

• 机を = the desk is what you place
• 壁ぎわに = where you place it