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Post by veggie on Mar 2, 2004 15:28:24 GMT -5
is there any difference in meaning between 'sitting in the chair' and 'sitting on the chair'? i'm confused... thank you
veggie
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Post by KenWalsh on Mar 3, 2004 0:50:30 GMT -5
I will sit 'in' an armchair but 'on' a chair at the dining room table. The difference is the arms frame a place that I can fill (sit in), but I can only sit on (atop) a chair without arms. However, few people would notice the difference. Is there a difference in Polish?
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Post by veggie on Mar 3, 2004 7:14:36 GMT -5
we say 'sit on a chair' but 'in an armchair'. does 'He was sitting in a chair' mean that the chair had arms? the example is taken from longman dictionary
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Post by xeo on May 9, 2004 14:16:11 GMT -5
Veggie, use your imagination... if you sit in an armchair you're nestled in it... it's the same as if you were inside a car without a roof but the difference is that you don't have a front pane  that's why you're in, if an armchair had a roof and a front wall you would be locked inside it... you sit ON a chair beacause you sit on a surface... it's the same when you sit on a board... Ken, in Polish, you can hear both "na fotelu" and "w fotelu", people like using "na" they always sit "on sth" |
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that's why you're in, if an armchair had a roof and a front wall you would be locked inside it...