Kilo Lingo

tooth

/tuːθ/

Line drawing of tooth
Coloured illustration of tooth
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Translation

One of the hard white parts in your mouth that you use to bite and chew.

Word origin

From Old English toth, the old Germanic word for a tooth.

Origin
Old English
Root
toth

Grammar

Gender
Pluralteethirregular

Examples

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"Tooth" is one hard white part in the mouth.

Brush .

"Teeth" is the plural of "tooth", and it does not add an s.

white .

Here "teeth" describes the colour of all of them.

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This word is part of lesson 11.