Quick answer
Стира́ть = wash clothes. Мыть = wash dishes, floors, hands. Убира́ть = tidy up.
Laundry
Cleaning
Dry cleaning
Three verbs for “wash”
Never стира́ть посу́ду
Clothes are стира́ют; everything else is мо́ют. Стира́ть посу́ду would mean putting plates in the washing machine, which is exactly how it sounds to a Russian ear.
At the dry cleaner’s
Typical mistakes
Я стира́ю посу́ду.
Я мо́ю посу́ду.
Only clothes are стира́ть.
мой пыль
моя́ пыль
пыль ends in -ь and is feminine.
Check yourself
How do you say “I’m washing the dishes”?