Humanities › Languages Japanese Vocabulary Related to the Concept of Family Japanese Audio Phrasebook Share Flipboard Email Print Jorge Hernández Valiñan/Wikimedia Commons/Creative Commons 2.0 Languages Japanese Basics History & Culture Vocabulary Grammar English as a Second Language Spanish French German Italian Mandarin English Grammar by Namiko Abe Updated November 29, 2017 In Japanese, the terms of family relationships differ according to whether you are talking about your own family to someone else, or the other person's family. Talking about your familyTalking about another's familyfatherchichi父otousanお父さんmotherhaha母okaasanお母さんolder brother ani兄oniisanお兄さんolder sisterane姉oneesanお姉さんyounger brotherotouto弟otoutosan弟さんyounger sisterimouto妹imoutosan妹さんgrandfathersofu祖父ojiisanおじいさんgrandmothersobo祖母obaasanおばあさんuncleoji叔父/伯父ojisanおじさんauntoba叔母/伯母obasanおばさんhusbandotto夫goshujinご主人wifetsuma妻okusan奥さんsonmusuko息子musukosan息子さんdaughtermusume娘ojousanお嬢さん Useful Words kazoku家族familyryoushin両親parentskyoudai兄弟siblingkodomo子供child itokoいとこcousinshinseki親戚relatives Useful Expressions Kekkon shiteimasu ka.結婚していますか。Are you married?Kekkon shiteimasu.結婚しています。I am married.Dokushin desu独身です。I am single.Kyoudai ga imasu ka.兄弟がいますか。Do you have brothers and sisters?Kodomo ga imasu ka. 子供がいますか。Do you have children? citecite this article Format mla apa chicago Your Citation Abe, Namiko. "Japanese Vocabulary Related to the Concept of Family." ThoughtCo, Nov. 29, 2017, thoughtco.com/family-japanese-vocabulary-2028118. Abe, Namiko. (2017, November 29). Japanese Vocabulary Related to the Concept of Family. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/family-japanese-vocabulary-2028118 Abe, Namiko. "Japanese Vocabulary Related to the Concept of Family." ThoughtCo. https://www.thoughtco.com/family-japanese-vocabulary-2028118 (accessed April 23, 2018). copy citation Continue Reading