Family is šeima. Mum is mama, dad is tėtis, parents are tėvai. Press the speaker next to a word to hear it.
Mama and tėtis are what children and adults alike call their parents. Motina and tėvas, mother and father, are the formal words of documents and books. Tėvai means parents, and it is also the plural of tėvas.
Sesuo, sister, and duktė, daughter, change their stem in the other cases: I have no sister is neturiu sesers. Dukra is a second, regular word for daughter, and the one most people use.
To say I have a brother or a son, put the noun into the accusative: turiu brolį, turiu sūnų.
Grandfather and grandmother are senelis and senelė, and the two together are seneliai.
Translations and examples are written with the help of a language model; the pronunciation is synthesized speech.
Verba sends a short dictation every morning and brings the word back exactly when it starts to fade.
