LearnModule 4 · Lesson 7 of 30Basic User · CEFR A2, completedUnit 2 · Los verbos reflexivos — the reflexive day

Me ducho, me lavo — the bathroom verbs

Module 4 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A2, completed), lesson 7 of 30: Me ducho (I take a shower), me lavo las manos (I wash my hands, note LAS manos. On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.

The words

Spanish	English	Say it
ducharse	to take a shower	doo-CHAR-seh
yo me ducho	I take a shower	yoh meh DOO-choh
lavarse	to wash (oneself)	lah-BAR-seh
yo me lavo las manos	I wash my hands	yoh meh LAH-boh lahs MAH-nohs
yo me lavo los dientes	I brush my teeth	yoh meh LAH-boh lohs DYEHN-tehs
los dientesplural	the teeth	lohs DYEHN-tehs
ella se lava el pelo	she washes her hair	EH-yah seh LAH-bah ehl PEH-loh
el jabón	the soap	ehl hah-BOHN

Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.

La regla · The rule

Me ducho (I take a shower), me lavo las manos (I wash my hands — note LAS manos, not "my": the me already says whose). Me lavo los dientes — I brush my teeth.

Y también · And also

Ella se lava el pelo. ¿Te lavas los dientes por la noche? El jabón is the soap that makes it all possible.

Ojo · Watch out

me lavo LAS manos, never mis manos: the reflexive me already says whose hands they are. The body part takes the plain article.

Do it now — on paper

Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with ducharse.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 7 in Module 4 are the written half of this page.

This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.

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