Word
Vous vous brossez les dents le matin.
Meaning
You brush your teeth in the morning.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Vous vous brossez les dents le matin.
vous
you (plural/formal)
le matin
the morning
se brosser
to brush
la dent
the tooth
Questions & Answers about Vous vous brossez les dents le matin.
Why does the sentence say vous twice?
The first vous is the subject ("you"). The second vous is a reflexive pronoun showing that the action is done to the subject (like saying "you brush yourself"). In French, verbs for daily hygiene routines like washing and brushing are usually reflexive.
Why is it les dents (the teeth) instead of "vos dents" (your teeth)?
In French, when you use a reflexive verb like vous vous brossez, it's already obvious whose body part is involved. Because the second vous tells us you are doing the action to yourself, French just uses the word for "the" (les) rather than "your".
Where is the word for "in" in le matin (in the morning)?
French doesn't use a preposition like "in" for general parts of the day. To talk about a habit, you just use le (the) plus the time of day. So le matin naturally translates to "in the morning" or "every morning".