Vietnamese/Family
Appearance
Family Members
[edit | edit source]- Family members [that are not first degree relatives] will typically have titles based on to which parent they are related.
- Grandfather
- Ông (generic)*
- Ông nội (paternal grandfather)
- Ông ngoại (maternal grandfather)
- Ông cụ (great grandfather)
- Ông cụ nội (paternal great grandfather)
- Ông cụ ngoại (maternal great grandfather)
- Grandmother
- Bà (generic)*
- Bà nội (paternal grandmother)
- Bà ngoại (maternal grandmother)
- Bà cụ (great grandmother)
- Bà cụ nội (paternal great grandmother)
- Bà cụ ngoại (maternal great grandmother)
- Dad, Father
- Cha
- Bố (Northern dialect)
- Ba (Southern and Central dialect)
- Mom, Mother
- Má (Southern dialect)
- Mẹ (Northern dialect)
- Children
- Con cái
- Daughter
- Con gái
- Son
- Con trai
- Brother
- Anh (your elder brother)
- Em trai (your younger brother)
- Em út (your youngest sibling)
- Sister
- Chị (your elder sister)
- Em gái (your younger sister)
- Em út (your youngest sibling)
- Uncle
- Ông (your great-uncle)*
- Chú (your father's younger brother)
- Bác (your father's or mother's older brother)
- Cậu (your mother's brother)
- Dượng (your dì's husband)
- Aunt
- Cô (your dad's sister)
- Bác (your father's) however for your mother's older sister or brother only Northern Vietnamese in recent 100 years)
- Bà (your great-aunt)*
- Dì (your mother's younger sister)
- Thím (your chú's wife)
- Mợ (your cậu's wife)
- *Ông and Bà are generic terms for an older man or woman, respectively, typically with a two-generation gap from yourself. Using your grandparents as a baseline, any person that falls within the same generation are typically referred to as Ông and Bà (e.g., your grandparents' siblings and first cousins). For great-uncles and great-aunts, the Ông and Bà are followed by the title of what your parents call them (Example: Ông Cậu would be your mom or dad's Cậu (mom or dad's mother's blood-related brother, or your grandmother's brother for simplicity).
- If the title has more than one word, the last word is a description of the base noun.
- Trai = boy
- Gái = girl
- Nội = paternal side
- Ngoại = maternal side