{"id":53581,"date":"2020-04-14T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/?p=53581"},"modified":"2023-12-14T15:50:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T14:50:29","slug":"the-family-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/blog\/the-family-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"The Family in Spanish: Spanish Lesson 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the fourteenth lesson in our beginner level Spanish course and we will look at The Family in Spanish and practice describing family members with the Spanish verbs Ser and Estar<\/a>.<\/h4>\n

First let’s take a look at some useful vocabulary related to The Family in Spanish<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

(El) Marido: Husband
\n(La) Mujer \/ (La) Esposa: Wife
\n(El) Padre: Father
\n(La) Madre: Mother
\n(El) Hijo: Son
\n(La) Hija: Daughter
\n(El) Hermano: Brother
\n(La) Hermana: Sister
\n(El) Abuelo: Grandfather
\n(La) Abuela: Grandmother
\n(El) Nieto: Grandson
\n(La) Nieta: Granddaughter
\n(El) T\u00edo: Uncle
\n(La) T\u00eda: Aunt
\n(El) Sobrino: Nephew
\n(La) Sobrina: Niece
\n(El) Primo: Cousin (boy)
\n(La) Prima: Consin (girl)<\/p>\n

Plurals<\/h4>\n

With plurals of members of The Family in Spanish<\/strong> you need to add ‘S<\/em>‘. For example, Brothers<\/em> would be Hermanos<\/em> and Uncles<\/em> would be T\u00edos<\/em>. If there are two or more male family members you will use Los<\/em> (The)<\/em> rather than El<\/em> (e.g. Los hermanos<\/em>) and if there are two or more female family members you will use Las<\/em> (The)<\/em> rather than La (e.g. Las hermanas)<\/em>. If you wish to describe a mix of male and female family members, you always choose the male option and add the plural ‘S<\/em>‘ at the end. For example, if you wish to say The Cousins<\/em> and there are three female cousins and one male cousin you will say Los primos<\/em>. Other plurals include: Los padres (the parents), Los hijos (the children\/sons), Los abuelos (the grandparents\/grandfathers), Los nietos (the grandchildren\/grandsons), Los t\u00edos (the uncles and aunts\/uncles), Los sobrinos (the nephews and nieces\/nephews).<\/p>\n

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Let’s practice<\/h4>\n

Next we are going to practice describing The Family in Spanish<\/strong> using the vocabulary we have just seen with the Spanish verbs Ser (To be)<\/a> and Estar (To be)<\/a> that we learned earlier in this course. Before we begin you should know that Who<\/em> is Quien<\/em> in Spanish (e.g. \u00bfQuien es Pedro?: Who is Pedro?<\/em>) and we use De<\/em> when in English you would use the possessive apostrophe ‘s (e.g. Pedro es hermano de Silvia: Pedro is Silvia’s brother).<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00bfQui\u00e9n es Rebeca?: Who is Rebeca?
\nRebeca es la t\u00eda de Carlos: Rebeca is Carlos’ aunt.
\n\u00bfDe d\u00f3nde es Rebeca?: Where is Rebeca from?
\nRebeca es de Cuba: Rebeca is from Cuba.<\/p>\n

\u00bfC\u00f3mo de llama el abuelo de Miguel?: What is the name of Miguel’s grandfather?
\nEl abuelo de Miguel se llama Jos\u00e9: Miguel’s grandfather is called Jos\u00e9.
\n\u00bfD\u00f3nde est\u00e1 Jos\u00e9 ahora?: Where is Jos\u00e9 now?
\nJos\u00e9 est\u00e1 en el bar: Jos\u00e9 is in the bar.<\/p>\n

\u00bfCu\u00e1ntos primos tiene Mar\u00eda?: How many cousins does Mar\u00eda have?
\nMar\u00eda tiene seis primos. Tres primos y tres primas: Mar\u00eda has six cousins. Three male cousins and three female cousins.
\n\u00bfQui\u00e9nes son?: Who are they?
\nSon Felipe, Alfredo, Alberto, Irene, Ana y Bel\u00e9n: They are Felipe, Alfredo, Alberto, Irene, Ana and Bel\u00e9n.<\/p>\n

That is all for this lesson about The Family in Spanish<\/strong>. We recommend that you review the previous lessons in this course about Ser (To be) and Estar (To be) as well as our lessons about Tener (To have)<\/a> and Nationalities<\/a>\u00a0and practice writing your own sentences to describe your family and the families of other people you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the fourteenth lesson in our beginner level Spanish course and we will look at The Family in Spanish and practice describing family members with the Spanish verbs Ser and Estar. First let’s take a look at some useful vocabulary related to The Family in Spanish: (El) Marido: Husband (La) Mujer \/ (La) Esposa: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":53595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[1391,1516,1652],"class_list":["post-53581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spanish-lessons","tag-beginner-spanish-lessons","tag-learn-spanish","tag-spanish-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53600,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53581\/revisions\/53600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}