👨‍👩‍👧 Family members

Unit 2 · Letters, vowels & people around you (MSA) · 8 min

Family: هَذَا أَبِي "this is my father", هَذِهِ أُمِّي "this is my mother". Nouns are masculine or feminine: هَذَا (m.), هَذِهِ (f.). Add ـي for "my".

Words in this lesson

• أَب (ab) — father
• أُمّ (umm) — mother
• أَخ (akh) — brother
• أُخْت (ukht) — sister
• اِبْن (ibn) — son
• بِنْت (bint) — daughter; girl
• عَائِلَة (ʿā’ila) — family

Project: Caption a family photo in Arabic: هَذَا… / هَذِهِ….