This video is the lesson for Family in German: Mother, Father, Brother, Sister in the free A1 course — with the grammar written out, vocabulary and exercises.

German family words and articles

What this video teaches

Learn German family words and their articles: die Mutter, der Vater, die Schwester, der Bruder, and more — women take die, men take der. Covers der Cousin versus die Cousine, and how mein goes with der words and meine with die words (mein Bruder, meine Schwester).

Example sentences from the video

Die Mutter, der Vater.

Die Schwester, der Bruder.

Der Cousin, die Cousine.

Mein Bruder.

Meine Schwester.

What is said in this video (German)

Is it meine Mutter or mein Vater?

Why the difference?

Let's learn German family words!

Here are your core family words.

Die Mutter — mother.

Der Vater — father.

Die Schwester — sister.

Der Bruder — brother.

Notice, some are die, some are der.

More family!

Die Oma — grandma.

Der Opa — grandpa.

Die Tante — aunt.

Der Onkel — uncle.

Key German words in this video

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