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Dear all,Context; Somebody has died near to me. So, I am going to that house to see the person one who died. On the way my friend asked me like this, “Where are you going?” I answered “ I  am going to that “dead house”. The “dead house” means according to my mother tongue translation. Likewise we say “wedding house”.  What is the English translation of these sentences, “dead house and wedding house”. Or is it right sentence?Thank you.

Deadrat · Accepted Answer

The closest English comes to your translation is "house of mourning," but it's more a description than a destination. I've never heard it in the context you mention. Destinations are the names of the social occasions.

"I'm going to
the wedding,
the wedding reception,
the funeral,
the funeral service,
the burial,
the visitation,
the funeral reception. "

Wisdom27 · Answer

I know all these words. But what I am saying is, before or on that day we visit the house of closest relatives where one wedding takes place and give something to them. This is our custom. In that case, we say if somebody is asking “ where are you going?” As a response, we say there is a wedding of our relative, so we are going to that “wedding house”( It means destination) likewise, sometimes funeral also takes two, three days because of waiting for nearest ones. In that case also, we visit the house before funeral or on the funeral day. So we say we are going to that” dead house” (destination) These sentences are according to my mother tongue translation.
Thank you.

BarbaraPA · Answer

We don't say it that way.
We're going to visit with the deceased's family.
We're going to see Joe's family.

We don't say "funeral house" or "dead house" or "wedding house."

(Note: the funeral home is the commercial place of business where they take care of the dead.)

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