"Meter", "Poner", y un "vitrina de comedor"

Question

I am practicing a conversation with our moving company and I am struggling with a sentence for many reasons. The first reason is, I want to move a piece of furniture and I don't know it's proper name in any language. I did some google image searches and I finally arrived at "vitrina de comedor". It looks somewhat like a China cabinet but it isn't designed to hold China, specifically. Should I use "vitrina de comedor" or is there another alternative? Would "gabinete de china" be better or would that be more like a cabinet made in China rather than a cabinet made for holding china?

Next, I am confused by whether I should use "poner" or "meter". My understating is "poner" is more to put ON and "meter" is to put INTO. So, I think what I want to say is "Quiero meter la vitrina de comedor en esto camión viejo." (I want to put the [China cabinet like thing] into this old truck." (There will be several trucks and I am trying specify which one they should use for this furniture.)

Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

You are right that "gabinete de China" would mean a cabinate from China, so that would not be a good translation. A display case is a display case, so it doesn´t really matter where it goes, so la vitrina is what we say. However if you want to indicate to the movers where this will go, then you can say la vitrina que va en el comedor if you want it to go in the dining room.

Meter la vitrina en el camión viejo.

Poner la vitrina en el comedor.