Family: There are my father, my mother, my younger brother and I.

On this page, you can learn how to say who is in your family in Japanese.

Key Sentence

First box: English, Second box: Romaji, Last box: Japanese writing and audio

One by one

• 父（ちち） → my father
• と → and
• 母（はは） → my mother
• と → and
• 弟（おとうと） → my younger brother
• と → and
• 私（わたし） → I
• が → no meaning
• います → are

Note

がいます at the end can be です. The meaning is still same.

Vocabulary

【Japanese Vocabulary】My family

What you learn: my mother, my father, my older sister, my older brother, my grandmother, my grandfather, my aunt, my uncle / Extension: Use 一番上の for the oldest and 一番下の for the youngest to describe people in your family. Put a counter for people after brothers or sisters if you want to talk about more than one brother or sister.

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2016.11.12

Review

Task 1: Change into Japanese.

• There are my father, my younger brother, my older sister and I.
• There are my father, my mother, my older brother, my younger sister and I.

Task 2: Change into English.

• 父と祖父と兄と私がいます。
• 父と母と姉と妹と私がいます。

Kanji

Task 3: Listen to answer what you hear in English.

Answer