[Vocabulary] (river) views

[Meja]

All the main rooms have river views.
The house is on three floors and has a terraced garden with river views.

These sentences are examples from a dictionary. I'd like to know if I can use "views" in the same way with other nouns. For example:
I have a room with buildings views.
I have a big garden with mountain views.
My house has trees views.
My room has theatre views.
All the rooms in my flat have park views.

 

[GoesStation]

All the main rooms have river views.
The house is on three floors and has a terraced garden with river views.

These sentences are examples from a dictionary. I'd like to know if I can use "views" in the same way with other nouns. For example:
I have a room with buildings views.:cross:
I have a big garden with mountain views.:tick:
My house has trees views.:cross:
My room has theatre views.:cross:
All the rooms in my flat have park views.:tick:

See above. "Park views" is rather unnatural but not impossible. I once saw a real-estate ad in the Los Angeles Times for a house with "a view that relates to the ocean," so these terms can be as flexible as the imaginations of real-estate agents.

 

[Meja]

Thanks!
So again there's no rule. ;-)

Are these possible:

My room has hill views.

My room has sea views.

My room has ocean views.

My room has lake views.

My room has city centre views.

Another question is why we don't use an article before "river" in the original examples (or before "mountain" in mine). Do these nouns function as adjectives in these examples?

 

[GoesStation]

Your sentences are all possible. "City-center" (AmE spelling) requires a hyphen because it's a compound adjective. I think the rule, such as it is, is that we only use the "x view" construction for large, more-or-less natural features. (You can have a "lake view" regardless of whether the lake is natural or man-made.)

I think X in the "x view" construction is an attributive noun, functionally equivalent to an adjective.

 

[jutfrank]

city-center view sounds very odd. Possibly city view.

 

[GoesStation]

city-center view sounds very odd.

I wouldn't be surprised to see it in, say, an AirBnB ad for an apartment in Montmartre (Paris) with a view of the central arrondissements. The French centre-ville doesn't quite translate to "downtown"; city-center would be a likely translation for an Anglophone expatriate to choose.

I agree that it wouldn't be natural in an American setting, where I'd expect downtown view.

 

[andrewg927]

I wouldn't be surprised to see it in, say, an AirBnB ad for an apartment in Montmartre (Paris) with a view of the central arrondissements. The French centre-ville doesn't quite translate to "downtown"; city-center would be a likely translation for an Anglophone expatriate to choose.

I agree that it wouldn't be natural in an American setting, where I'd expect downtown view.

Maybe a link to Wiki or a definition of an "arrondissement" would be very helpful.

 

[andrewg927]

The structure "a river views" would be just awkward. Here you have a singular and a plural in the same phrase. That is not natural.

 

[Meja]

The structure "a river views" would be just awkward. Here you have a singular and a plural in the same phrase. That is not natural.

I actually had in mind the definite article. It sounds better without articles to me, too, but I don't know why we don't use any.

 

[GoesStation]

Maybe a link to Wiki or a definition of an "arrondissement" would be very helpful.

Sorry. I looked at what I'd written and thought "I really ought to define that." Then I proceeded not to define it.

An arrondissement​ is a legal district of a city. You could translate it as "borough", but it's usually just left as-is as a loan word.