brush one's teeth

English

Verb

brush one's teeth (third-person singular simple present brushes one's teeth, present participle brushing one's teeth, simple past and past participle brushed one's teeth)

1. To clean one's teeth, especially by using a toothbrush and toothpaste. (This entry is a translation hub.)

Translations

to clean one's teeth with a toothbrush

• Apache:

  Western Apache: niwwu-i táôâ’ eaâ

• Arabic: نَظَّفَ الْأَسْنَان (naẓẓafa al-ʔasnān)

  Hijazi Arabic: فَرَّش (farraš)

• Armenian: ատամները լվանալ (atamnerə lvanal)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 刷牙 (caat³ ngaa⁴)

  Mandarin: 刷牙 (zh) (shuāyá)

• Czech: čistit zuby impf
• Dutch: tandenpoetsen (nl)
• Finnish: harjata hampaansa
• French: se brosser les dents
• German: Zähne putzen
• Hungarian: fogat mos (hu)
• Icelandic: bursta tennurnar
• Irish: do chuid fiacla a ní
• Italian: lavarsi i denti
• Japanese: 歯を磨く (はをみがく, ha o migaku)
• Korean: 이를 닦다 (i-reul dakda)
• Persian: مسواک زدن (fa) (mesvâk zadan)
• Polish: myć zęby impf, umyć zęby pf
• Portuguese: escovar os dentes, lavar os dentes
• Romanian: se spăla pe dinți
• Russian: чи́стить зу́бы impf (čístitʹ zúby)
• Spanish: cepillarse los dientes
• Swedish: borsta tänderna
• Vietnamese: đánh răng (vi)