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The German word for brush is
Bürste





brush

Gender

The gender of Bürste is feminine. E.g. die Bürste.

Plural

The plural of Bürste is Bürsten.

German Definition


brush
     Substantiv:
     [1] Bürste
     [2] Pinsel
     [3] Lunte, Standarte, insbesondere der Schwanz des Fuchses
          [1] remove the dirt with a cleaning brush
          [2] Oil painting brushes have long handles.
     Verb:
     [1] bürsten
          [1] She brushed her hair.



Translations for brush and their definitions

Bürste
     n-f. brush
     v. first-person singular present of bürsten
     v. first-person singular subjunctive of bürsten
     v. third-person singular subjunctive of bürsten
     v. singular imperative of bürsten


Bürsten
     n. plural of Bürste
     v. to scrub; to clean a surface with a brush (but not usually teeth, for which putzen)
          Die Kacheln müsste ich mal richtig bürsten. - I have to properly brush these tiles sometime.
     v. to brush (hair)
          Ich bürste dir kurz die Haare. - I’ll brush your hair quickly.
     v. to brush someone’s hair (should be used with caution in some contexts because of the vulgar sense below)
          Ich bürste dich kurz. - I’ll brush you quickly.
     v. to brush one’s own hair
          Ich bürste mich kurz. - I’ll brush my hair quickly.
     v. to fuck, have sex with


Pinseln
     n. dative plural of Pinsel
     v. to paint, to daub


Lunte
     n-f. (cord that conveys the fire to some explosive device) fuse
     n-f. (a proto-yarn, an intermediate stage in automated spinning) attenuated and slightly twisted roving. See :de:Wikipedia:Spinnen (Garn) and :de:Wikipedia:Roving (Vorgarn)


Wischen ©
     n. gerund of wischen
     n. dative plural of Wisch
     v. to wipe
     v. to mop, scrub
     v. (Switzerland) to sweep
     v. (neologism, GUI) to swipe


Streifen
     n-m. stripe
     n-m. strip
     n-m. band
     n-m. (colloquial) film, flick
     n-m. streak
     n-m. tape
     n-m. zone
     v. (+aux, haben) to brush, to graze, to stroke
          Zum Glück hat ihn der Schuss nur gestreift. - Luckily the shot only grazed him.
          Ich streifte den Mann aus Versehen. - I brushed against the man by mistake.
     v. (+aux, sein) to wander, to roam
          Sie streifte stundenlang durch die Wälder. - She roamed the woods for hours.


Busch ©
     n. bush, shrub
          Du musst mal den großen Busch im Vorgarten beschneiden. - You need to cut back that big shrub in the front yard.
     n. bushes, thicket, brush, scrub, copse (densely vegetated area with mainly smaller plants and some trees)
          Wir müssen uns hier nicht durch den Busch kämpfen: Da hinten ist ein Weg. - We don't have to battle our way through the bushes here: over there is a path.
     n. (informal, pejorative) boondocks, the middle of nowhere; a remote, rural area
          Wir sitzen hier irgendwo im Busch und haben keine Ahnung, wo wir lang müssen. - We're sitting here somewhere in the middle of nowhere and have no clue which way to go.
     n. (literary, dated, or regional) woodland, small forest, grove, wooded countryside
     Proper noun. surname, common


Gebüsch
     n. (collective) brush (vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees)


auftragen
     v. to assign
     v. to wear until damaged
     v. to apply some liquid or fluid
          Sie trug ihren rosafarbenen Lippenstift auf ihre Lippen auf. - She applied her pink lipstick on her lips.


Standarte
     n-f. (flag) standard
     n-f. (hunter's jargon) tail of a fox or a wolf


Gestrüpp
     n. brushwood


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