make the bed

English

Verb

make the bed .

1. to arrange the sheets, blankets, or other coverings of a bed smoothly and neatly, with the corners tucked under the mattress

Translations

arrange sheets, etc smoothly and neatly

• Albanian: rregulloj shtratin
• Asturian: facer la cama
• Bemba: pangá ubú-sanshí
• Catalan: fer el llit
• Chamorro: para ma äreglä i káma
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鋪床 (cmn), 铺床 (cmn) (pūchuáng)

• Faroese: reiða song
• Finnish: pedata (fi)
• French: faire le lit (fr)
• Frisian: bêdmeitsje
• German: das Bett machen (de)
• Hungarian: ágyaz (hu)
• Icelandic: búa um rúmið (is)
• Italian: rifare il letto (it)

• Japanese: 布団を敷く (ja) (ふとんをしく, futon o shiku), ベッドを整える (ja) (beddo o totonoeru)
• Jèrriais: faithe lé liet
• Kinyarwanda: gusasa
• Kongo: ku-yala mfulu
• Macedonian: наместување кревет
• Occitan: far lo lièch
• Portuguese: fazer a cama (pt)
• Quechua: kawituta allichina
• Russian: стелить/застилать/стлать постель/кровать (stelítʹ/zastilátʹ/stlatʹ postélʹ/krovátʹ) impf., постелить/застлать постель/кровать (postelítʹ/zastlátʹ postélʹ/krovátʹ) pf.
• Samoan: e teu le moega
• Spanish: hacer la cama (es)
• Swedish: bädda (sv)
• Upper Sorbian: łožo pósłać

See also

• make one's bed and lie in it