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in reply to a message by m4yb3_daijirou
Not to be a nuisance for information, but do you know the Japanese word for: great grandmother; great grandfather; grandmother; grandfather; mother; and father?
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Apologies for the late reply.
As Takasugi writes in https://jref.com/articles/kinship.366/, kinship terms in Japanese have two categories: reference terms and address terms (the latter being used to call your family without using their name, the former not being used to call them directly).
That article has a link (http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/language/kinship.html), in Japanese, that goes in further detail regarding kinship terms. The first big table lists out reference terms with address terms coming after, if listed alongside (reference terms and address terms are separated by comma).
Other sources to check out include (in English):
http://www.imabi.net/family.htm
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/people#Referring_to_family_members
As Takasugi writes in https://jref.com/articles/kinship.366/, kinship terms in Japanese have two categories: reference terms and address terms (the latter being used to call your family without using their name, the former not being used to call them directly).
That article has a link (http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/language/kinship.html), in Japanese, that goes in further detail regarding kinship terms. The first big table lists out reference terms with address terms coming after, if listed alongside (reference terms and address terms are separated by comma).
Other sources to check out include (in English):
http://www.imabi.net/family.htm
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/people#Referring_to_family_members
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