Vietnamese/Family

Family Members

 * Family members [that are not first degree relatives] will typically have titles based on to which parent they are related.


 * Grandfather
 * Ông (generic)*
 * Ông nội (paternal grandfather)
 * Ông ngoại (maternal grandfather)
 * Ông cụ (great grandfather)
 * Ông cụ nội (paternal great grandfather)
 * Ông cụ ngoại (maternal great grandfather)


 * Grandmother
 * Bà (generic)*
 * Bà nội (paternal grandmother)
 * Bà ngoại (maternal grandmother)
 * Bà cụ (great grandmother)
 * Bà cụ nội (paternal great grandmother)
 * Bà cụ ngoại (maternal great grandmother)


 * Dad, Father
 * Cha
 * Bố (Northern dialect)
 * Ba (Southern and Central dialect)


 * Mom, Mother
 * Má (Southern dialect)
 * Mẹ (Northern dialect)


 * Children
 * Con cái


 * Daughter
 * Con gái


 * Son
 * Con trai


 * Brother
 * Anh (your elder brother)
 * Em trai (your younger brother)
 * Em út (your youngest sibling)


 * Sister
 * Chị (your elder sister)
 * Em gái (your younger sister)
 * Em út (your youngest sibling)


 * Uncle
 * Ông (your great-uncle)*
 * Chú (your father's younger brother)
 * Bác (your father's or mother's older brother)
 * Cậu (your mother's brother)
 * Dượng (your dì's husband)


 * Aunt
 * Cô (your dad's sister)
 * Bác (your father's) however for your mother's older sister or brother only Northern Vietnamese in recent 100 years)
 * Bà (your great-aunt)*
 * Dì (your mother's younger sister)
 * Thím (your chú's wife)
 * Mợ (your cậu's wife)




 * *Ông and Bà are generic terms for an older man or woman, respectively, typically with a two-generation gap from yourself. Using your grandparents as a baseline, any person that falls within the same generation are typically referred to as Ông and Bà (e.g., your grandparents' siblings and first cousins). For great-uncles and great-aunts, the Ông and Bà are followed by the title of what your parents call them (Example: Ông Cậu would be your mom or dad's Cậu (mom or dad's mother's blood-related brother, or your grandmother's brother for simplicity).
 * If the title has more than one word, the last word is a description of the base noun.


 * Trai = boy
 * Gái = girl
 * Nội = paternal side
 * Ngoại = maternal side