German Growth

German vocabulary

German family and people vocabulary

24 words for relatives, ages and describing people — each with the article a published German reference prints, not one a machine guessed. Grouped by gender, because that is how you have to remember them.

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der — Masculine 13

  • der Bruder 👦 brother
  • der Cousin 🧑‍🦱 cousin
  • der Enkel grandson
  • der Freund 🤝 friend
  • der Gast 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 guest
  • der Großvater 👴 grandfather
  • der Junge 🙋‍♂️ boy
  • der Mann 👨 man
  • der Neffe nephew
  • der Onkel 👨‍🦳 uncle
  • der Sohn 🧑 son
  • der Vater 👨‍👧‍👦 father
  • der Zwilling twin

die — Feminine 8

  • die Familie 👪 family
  • die Frau 👩 woman
  • die Großmutter 👵 grandmother
  • die Mutter 👩‍👧‍👦 mother
  • die Nichte niece
  • die Schwester 🙋‍♀️ sister
  • die Tante 👩‍🦰 aunt
  • die Tochter 🎀 daughter

das — Neuter 3

  • das Baby 👶 baby
  • das Kind 🧒 child
  • das Mädchen 👧 girl

Why the colours

der, die and das keep the same three colours everywhere in German Growth, because the article is the part worth remembering and colour is what makes it stick. If the gender is what trips you up, the rules are here; if it is the way the article changes mid-sentence, that is the four cases.

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