Words for family members and other relatives in Polish, a Western Slavic language spoken in mainly Poland, and also in Lithuania and Belarus and a number of other countries.
Key to abbreviations: m = male, f = female, frm = formal/polite, inf = informal
Polish (Polski) | |
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family | rodzina |
parents | rodzice |
father | ojciec (frm) tata/tato (inf) |
mother | matka (frm) mama (inf) |
children | dzieci |
son | syn |
daughter | córka |
husband | mąż małżonek |
wife | żona małżonka |
brother | brat |
sister | siostra |
uncle | wujek |
aunt | ciotka |
cousin | kuzyn (m) kuzynka (f) |
nephew | bratanek (brother's son) siostrzeniec (sister's son) |
niece | bratanica (brother's daughter) siostrzenica (sister's daughter) |
grandparents | dziadkowie |
grandfather | dziadek |
grandmother | babka (frm) babcia (inf) |
grandchildren | wnukowie wnuczęta |
grandson | wnuk |
granddaughter | wnuczka |
great grandfather | pradziadek |
great grandmother | prababka |
father-in-law | teść |
mother-in-law | teściowa |
brother-in-law | szwagier |
sister-in-law | bratowa (brother's wife) szwagierka |
Corrections and notes provided by Grzegorz Jagodziński
Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian
Family words in other languages
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