To sign “drink” in American Sign Language (ASL) you form your hand the same way you do when grabbing a glass. Afterward, move your hand to your mouth as if you were drinking from an imaginary glass.
Useful Sentences
Do you want to drink?
I want to drink and eat.
What do you want to drink?
Do I use my right or my left hand for signing “drink”?
For signs like “drink” that use only one hand, you typically use the hand you also write with. So in case you are left-handed, you would normally use your left hand for signing “drink”.
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In case you want to learn how deaf people think, check out our blog post here. In another blog post, we wrote about how deaf people dream.
