do the dishes (third-person singular simple present does the dishes, present participle doing the dishes, simple past did the dishes, past participle done the dishes)
- (intransitive) to wash up dirty crockery (plates and dishes) and cutlery (knives, forks, and spoons)
- Synonym: do the washing-up
I make my children do the dishes if they are impolite during dinner.
Translations
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to wash up dishes
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: мия чинии (mija činii)
- Catalan: escurar (ca), rentar els plats
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 洗碗 (zh) (xǐwǎn), 洗餐具 (xǐ cānjù)
- Czech: mýt nádobí
- Danish: vaske op
- Dutch: de afwas doen, afwassen (nl)
- Finnish: tiskata (fi), pestä astiat
- French: faire la vaisselle (fr), faire la plonge (fr) (slang)
- German: abwaschen (de), spülen (de)
- Hungarian: mosogat (hu), elmosogat (hu)
- Icelandic: vaska upp
- Irish: na soithí a ní
- Italian: lavare i piatti, fare i piatti
- Japanese: 皿を洗う (さらをあらう, sara o arau), 食器類を洗う (しょっきるいをあらう, shokkirui o arau), 皿洗いをする (ja) (さらあらいをする, saraarai o suru)
- Korean: 설거지하다 (ko) (seolgeojihada)
- Macedonian: (please verify) мие (mie), (please verify) измива (izmiva)
- Norman: laver les vaissieaux
- Norwegian: vaske opp (no)
- Persian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: zmywać (pl) impf
- Portuguese: lavar a louça
- Russian: мыть посу́ду impf (mytʹ posúdu), помы́ть посу́ду pf (pomýtʹ posúdu)
- Spanish: fregar, lavar los platos, lavar la loza
- Swedish: diska (sv)
- Tagalog: hugasan ang mga pinggan
- Thai: ล้างจาน
- Welsh: gwneud y llestri
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