Form both hands into flat 'B' shapes with your palms facing your body. Hold your non-dominant arm horizontally in front of your chest. Place your dominant hand horizontally just above your non-dominant hand. Move your dominant hand down to tap the pinky-side edge against the index-finger side of your non-dominant hand twice, mimicking the motion of a window opening and closing.
When signing this request, you can point to the actual window in the room before signing 'WINDOW' to establish what you are talking about. To sign 'open window', move the dominant hand up once and leave it there.
Sign 'WINDOW' followed by the sign for 'BROKEN'. Make sure your facial expression reflects a negative or concerned emotion, matching the context of something being damaged.
Sign 'WINDOW' and then use the 'LOOK' sign. Direct your gaze and your hands toward the imaginary or real window in the room to make your signing more visually spatial.
When signing this request, you can point to the actual window in the room before signing 'WINDOW' to establish what you are talking about. To sign 'open window', move the dominant hand up once and leave it there.
Sign 'WINDOW' followed by the sign for 'BROKEN'. Make sure your facial expression reflects a negative or concerned emotion, matching the context of something being damaged.
Sign 'WINDOW' and then use the 'LOOK' sign. Direct your gaze and your hands toward the imaginary or real window in the room to make your signing more visually spatial.
Yes, your dominant hand should always be the one on top doing the moving. Your non-dominant hand acts as the stationary base, so keeping your dominant hand active makes the sign feel much more natural.
For the noun 'window', you tap your dominant hand down twice. To sign the verb phrase 'open the window', you start with your hands together and move your dominant hand up once, leaving it in the open position.
Yes! While it originally mimics a physical glass window in a house, this sign is commonly used in modern ASL to refer to windows on a computer screen or web browser as well.
