What Are the Names for Close Family Members in French?

In this lesson, we learn ten words for close family members in French.

Watch the video as many times as you need, until you feel you can give the French translations as we go!

Now we can see what we’ve learned. Look at the English and see if you can provide the French for these expressions:

Part 1:

a child
brother
daughter
father
family

Part 2:

husband
mother
sister
son
wife

Notes on Usage

You might also hear maman (‘mummy’) and papa (‘daddy’), or mamie (‘granny’) and papi (‘grandpa’).