Hun vasker ansiktet.

Hun means she.

It is the normal third-person singular pronoun for a female person in Norwegian. In a simple sentence like this, it is the subject: the person doing the action.

Vasker is the present tense of å vaske, which means to wash.

So:

• å vaske = to wash
• vasker = wash / washes / is washing, depending on context

Norwegian verbs do not change for person the way English verbs do. So you get:

• jeg vasker = I wash
• du vasker = you wash
• hun vasker = she washes

The verb stays vasker for all of them.

Yes.

In Norwegian, the present tense often covers both:

• a general or habitual action: She washes her face
• an action happening now: She is washing her face

Context tells you which meaning is intended.

If you want to make right now especially clear, Norwegian often adds a time expression, such as:

• Hun vasker ansiktet nå. = She is washing her face now.

Because ansiktet is the definite form of the noun.

The noun is:

• et ansikt = a face
• ansiktet = the face

So the sentence literally looks like:

• Hun vasker ansiktet. = She washes the face

But in natural English, this is usually translated as her face.

In Norwegian, the definite article is often attached to the end of the noun instead of being a separate word.

So:

• et ansikt = a face
• ansiktet = the face

That -et is doing the job of English the.

This is very common in Norwegian.

With body parts, Norwegian often uses the definite form where English prefers a possessive.

So Norwegian commonly says:

• Hun vasker ansiktet.

Even though English usually says:

• She washes her face.

This is natural in Norwegian because the owner is already obvious from the subject hun.

The same pattern appears with other body parts and clothing:

• Han løfter hånden. = He raises his hand.
• Hun tar på seg jakken. = She puts on her jacket.

Because in a sentence like this, those forms are usually unnecessary.

hennes ansikt

This literally means her face, but it is more explicit. It can sound like you are stressing whose face it is, or contrasting it with someone else’s.

sitt ansikt

This uses the reflexive possessive sitt (because ansikt is a neuter noun). It is grammatically possible, but in this kind of everyday sentence it often sounds more formal, literary, or emphatic than the simple ansiktet.

So the most natural everyday version is:

• Hun vasker ansiktet.

Not necessarily.

Hun vasker ansiktet is perfectly natural and commonly means She washes her face.

But Norwegian also uses seg in related sentences:

• Hun vasker seg. = She washes herself.
• Hun vasker seg i ansiktet. = She washes herself in the face / She washes her face.

The version without seg focuses directly on the object ansiktet. The version with seg focuses more on the person washing herself.

So:

• Hun vasker ansiktet. = very natural
• Hun vasker seg i ansiktet. = also natural, a bit more explicit

It follows the normal Norwegian main-clause pattern:

• Subject + Verb + Object

So:

• Hun = subject
• vasker = verb
• ansiktet = object

This is very similar to English word order in a simple statement:

• She washes her face.

One important Norwegian rule is that the finite verb usually comes in second position in main clauses. In this sentence, the subject comes first, so the verb naturally comes second.

For example:

• Hun vasker ansiktet.
• Om morgenen vasker hun ansiktet.

In both sentences, the verb vasker is in second position.

Ansikt is a neuter noun.

That matters because neuter nouns usually take:

• et in the indefinite singular
• -et in the definite singular

So:

• et ansikt = a face
• ansiktet = the face

If you later learn possessives, that is also why the reflexive possessive would be sitt:

• sitt ansikt

because sitt is the neuter form.

In theory, yes, because ansiktet just means the face. The sentence itself does not explicitly say whose face it is.

However, in normal everyday use, people will often understand it as her own face unless context suggests otherwise.

If you want to make another person clear, Norwegian would usually specify it:

• Hun vasker barnets ansikt. = She is washing the child’s face.
• Hun vasker ansiktet hans. = She is washing his face.

So without extra context, her face is the most natural reading.