How to Talk About Your Parents and Siblings - Examples and Variation

Master how to talk about your parents and siblings with the key pattern

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Let's look at some examples.

Listen and repeat or speak along with the native speakers.

Ben Lee: Mi papá, mi mamá, mi hermana y yo.

Sasha Lee: Mi papá, mi mamá, mi hermano y yo.

Ricardo Román Garza: Mi papá, mi mamá, mi hermana y yo.

Silvia Ramírez Arce: Mi papá, mi mamá, mi hermana, mi hermano y yo.

Víctor Trejo: Mis papás y yo.

Did you notice how I replaced mi papá, mi mamá with mis papás?

Víctor Trejo: Mis papás y yo.

Víctor Trejo: My parents and me.

The phrase mis papás literally means "my fathers" but translates as "my parents." Mis papás.

Papás. "Parents." Papás (enunciated). Papás.

Papás is plural — a fact which will determine the form of other words in the sentence.

Before this is mis, "my." Mis (enunciated). Mis.

Mis is plural to agree with papás.

Víctor Trejo: Mis papás y yo.

Víctor Trejo: My parents and me.

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