Aside from other vocabulary posts, we will have a series of vocabulary posts called “Vocabulary by the room.” These posts will cover vocabulary of common items in each room. In this post, we will cover “Vocabulary by the room: Bathroom.”
Table of Contents
Vocabulary
| toilet | bồn cầu |
| bathtub | bồn tắm |
| sink | bồn rửa tay |
| towel | khăn |
| bath towel | khăn tắm |
| toilet papet | giấy vệ sinh, giấy đi cầu (informal) |
| toothbrush | bàn chải đánh răng |
| toothpaste | kem đánh răng |
| mouthwash | nước súc miệng |
| shampoo | dầu gội đầu |
| body wash | sữa tắm |
| soap | xà bông |
| bar soap | xà phòng |
Toilet paper can be called giấy vệ sinh or giấy đi cầu in Vietnamese. However, giấy đi cầu is a very informal way to say toilet paper.
Now that you’ve learned some bathroom vocabulary, let’s learn some common phrases related to the bathroom.
Common phrases
How do you say “take a shower” or “take a bath” in Vietnamese? We say “đi tắm.” With “đi” means go, đi tắm literally means go shower. If you want to be specific that you are going to use the bath to wash yourself, you can say “tắm bồn” or “đi tắm bồn.”
Usually you just need to say đi tắm and people will understand that you are going to the bathroom to wash yourself by either taking a shower or taking a bath. We do not specify in our daily conversation whether we are going to use a bath or a shower.
I only say tắm bồn or đi tắm bồn to my family when I mean to say I am going to use the bathtub and it may take a while.
What if you need to use the toilet? In general, if you want to say that you need to use the bathroom or the toilet, you can say đi vệ sinh. If you want to be informal and more specific, you can say đi tiểu (go pee) or đi cầu (go poo). There are various ways of saying you need to go poo in Vietnamese just like in English, from informal to very informal, but here we are just going to
Practice
Can you write these words in Vietnamese?
bathtub
sink
toilet
toothbrush
toothpaste
mouthwash
take a bath
take a shower
use the bathroom
now let’s try again but this time
bàn chải đánh răng
kem đánh răng
nước súc miệng
bồn tắm
bồn cầu
Did you find “vocabulary by the room: bathroom” post helpful? Check out other posts in Vocabulary By The Room series.
- Vietnamese vocabulary by the room: kitchen
- Vocabulary By The Room: Bedroom
- Vocabulary by the room: Bathroom
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