上床睡觉前要刷牙。

Brush your teeth before going to bed.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 上床 shàngchuáng
  1. to go to bed
  2. (coll.) to have sex
=2 睡觉 shuìjiào
  1. to go to bed
  2. to sleep
=2 睡觉 shuìjué
  1. (archaic, intransitive) to wake up
  2. to wake up
3 前 qián
  1. front
  2. forward
  3. ahead
  4. first
  5. top (followed by a number)
  6. future
  7. ago
  8. before
  9. BC (e.g. 前293年)
  10. former
  11. formerly
=4 要 yāo (bound form) to demand; to coerce
=4 要 yào
  1. to want; to need; to ask for
  2. will; shall; about to
  3. need to; should
  4. if (same as 要是 yàoshi)
  5. (bound form) important
=4 要 yǎo
  1. (archaic) alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  2. alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  3. used in 要褭／要袅
5 刷牙 shuāyá to brush one's teeth