The Family

German family vocabulary comes in tidy gender pairs. Most masculine words map to a feminine partner by adding -in or by being a different word entirely.

Masculine	English	Feminine	English
der Vater	father	die Mutter	mother
der Bruder	brother	die Schwester	sister
der Großvater / Opa	grandfather	die Großmutter / Oma	grandmother
der Onkel	uncle	die Tante	aunt
der Cousin	cousin (m)	die Cousine	cousin (f)
der Sohn	son	die Tochter	daughter
der Ehemann	husband	die Ehefrau	wife
der Freund	friend / boyfriend	die Freundin	friend / girlfriend

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