კბილების წმენდა
“კბილების წმენდა” (kbilebis tsmenda) — teeth cleaning in Georgian. Noun, level B1. a sharp ts with m right behind: tsmen-da. In a live sentence: “კბილების წმენდა წელიწადში ორჯერ სჭირდება” — Teeth cleaning is needed twice a year. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters კ, ბ, ი, ლ, ე, ბ, ი, ს, წ, მ, ე, ნ. A word from the everyday Georgian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Georgian | კბილების წმენდა |
| Read in Latin letters | kbilebis tsmenda |
| Translation | teeth cleaning |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
- კბილების წმენდაkbilebis tsmendateeth cleaning
How to pronounce it
a sharp ts with m right behind: tsmen-da
Why it looks that way
This is the professional cleaning at the dentist's. The home kind is described with another verb: kbilebs vixexav — I clean my teeth, literally 'I rub them'. Tartar is kbilis kva, tooth stone
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.
- კბილების წმენდა წელიწადში ორჯერ სჭირდებაkbilebis tsmenda tselitsadshi orjer schirdebaTeeth cleaning is needed twice a year
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 “teeth cleaning” in Georgian?
«კბილების წმენდა», read “kbilebis tsmenda”. a sharp ts with m right behind: tsmen-da. In a live sentence: “კბილების წმენდა წელიწადში ორჯერ სჭირდება” — Teeth cleaning is needed twice a year. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level B1; written with the characters კ, ბ, ი, ლ, ე, ბ, ი, ს, წ, მ, ე, ნ.
How is “კბილების წმენდა” written in Latin letters?
kbilebis tsmenda. 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?
This is the professional cleaning at the dentist's. The home kind is described with another verb: kbilebs vixexav — I clean my teeth, literally 'I rub them'. Tartar is kbilis kva, tooth stone. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
Can I hear how it sounds?
Yes, right on this page: click the word and it will play. The sound works on any phone, and nothing needs to be installed.