Master family vocabulary with flashcards, audio pronunciation, and tiered difficulty levels designed to take you from beginner to advanced.
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Review Spanish family vocabulary with the full list of words and their English translations.
Boost your vocabulary retention with these clever, association-rich memory tricks tailored for Spanish learners.
Memory Trick: Imagine your mother getting mad and shouting madre.
Madre starts with mad, matching an angry mother.
Memory Trick: Imagine your father drawing on a sketch pad and shouting padre.
Padre contains pad, reminding you of a notepad your father uses.
Memory Trick: Imagine your grandmother holding a giant colorful umbrella and shouting abuela.
Abuela sounds like umbrella, which keeps your grandmother dry.
Memory Trick: Picture your brother flexing his muscles at his girlfriend and saying he is her man while shouting hermano.
Hermano sounds like her man, representing your brother.
Memory Trick: Imagine your entire family posing together inside a picture frame labeled familia.
Familia is a direct cognate that sounds nearly identical to family.
Memory Trick: Imagine your cousin eating a top-quality prime steak and shouting primo.
Primo sounds like prime, representing a prime relative like a cousin.
How family vocabulary varies across Spain and Latin America.
Standard: Padre / Papá
Mexico: Apá
Argentina / Uruguay / Chile / Colombia:
Viejo
Andean Region (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia):
Taita
Standard: Madre / Mamá
Mexico: Amá
Argentina / Uruguay / Chile / Colombia:
Vieja
Standard: Hijo / Hija
Mexico: Chamaco / Chamaca
Argentina / Uruguay: Pibe / Piba
Spain: Chaval / Chavala
Venezuela: Chamo / Chama
Standard: Abuelo
Mexico / Central America / Chile / Andes:
Tata
Spain: Yayo
Standard: Abuela
Argentina / Uruguay / parts of Mexico & Andes:
Nana / Nona
Spain: Yaya
Standard: Bebé
Chile / Peru / Ecuador / Bolivia / Canary Islands:
Guagua
Argentina / Spain / Mexico:
Nene / Nena
Standard: Hermano / Hermana
Mexico: Carnal / Carnala
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