EAST 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Ichiban Records, Kazoku, Soba
22 Sep 2016
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One for your own family, and one to refer to someone else"s family members. Your own family (humble) family parents father mother siblings older brother older sister younger brother younger sister grandfather grandmother husband wife child/children kazoku ryooshin chichi haha kyoodai ani ane otooto imooto sofu soba shujin tsuma kodomo. Someone else"s family (polite) gokazoku goryooshin otoosan okaasan gokyoodai oniisan oneesan otootosan imootosan ojiisan obaasan goshujin okusan okosan. There are no numerical exceptions with this counter expression. *use terms to refer to someone else"s family when asking someone about theirs. Verb desu ka. imasu ka. gokazoku gokyoodai . With my mother, myself, and younger sister, there are two. (don"t include yourself in the counter). Asking about what order someone is in their family *use the particle/suffix ( ) in the question asking for order, but omit it in the answer. The structures for talking about sibling order differs quite a bit
