Definition
The son of a person's brother or sister.
Translations
- English
- nephew
- Français
- neveu
- Türkçe
- erkek yeğen
- Polski
- syn rodzeństwa
- Русский
- племянник
- Українська
- племінник
GERMAN DICTIONARY
der Neffe
- B1
- Noun
- People & Family
- Personal Information
nephew
/deːɐ̯ ˈnɛfə/
Meaning and translations
Meaning, definition and translations of this sense.
Grammar & classification
Main grammatical and classification properties of the word.
- Article
- der
- Gender
- Masculine
- Plural
- Neffen
- Part of speech
- Noun
- CEFR level
- B1
- Topics
- People & FamilyPrimaryPersonal Information
Usage examples
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Pronunciation and forms
Pronunciation and audio for the lemma and important forms.
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Lemma
Neffe/ˈnɛfə/
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Article phrase
der Neffe/deːɐ̯ ˈnɛfə/
Declension / Forms
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Usage and collocations
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Semantic relations
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- Related termCousin — male cousin
A Neffe is part of the family, but is the male person of the following generation and not a Cousin.
Word formation and word family
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