צחצוח שיניים
“צחצוח שיניים” (цахцух шинаим) — brushing teeth in Hebrew. Noun, level B1. The verb is of the same root: the doubled tz sounds just like our tz-tz. Brushed morning and evening, two minutes each time. In a live sentence: “צחצוח שיניים בבוקר ובערב.” — Brushing teeth in the morning and in the evening. Written with the characters צ, ח, צ, ו, ח, ש, י, נ, י, י. A word from the everyday Hebrew course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Hebrew | צחצוח שיניים |
| Read in Latin letters | цахцух шинаим |
| Translation | brushing teeth |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
The verb is of the same root: the doubled tz sounds just like our tz-tz. Brushed morning and evening, two minutes each time
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- צחצוח שיניים בבוקר ובערב.цахцух шинаим ба-бокер ува-эрэв.Brushing teeth in the morning and in the evening.
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “brushing teeth” in Hebrew?
«צחצוח שיניים», read “цахцух шинаим”. In a live sentence: “צחצוח שיניים בבוקר ובערב.” — Brushing teeth in the morning and in the evening. Noun, level B1; written with the characters צ, ח, צ, ו, ח, ש, י, נ, י, י.
How is “צחצוח שיניים” written in Latin letters?
цахцух шинаим. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
The verb is of the same root: the doubled tz sounds just like our tz-tz. Brushed morning and evening, two minutes each time. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.