grandparents
IPA/ˈɡræn.peə.rənt/
KK[ɡrˈændpˌɛrənts]IPA/ˈɡræn.per.ənt/
grandparents — 名詞
- grandparentssingular
- grandparentsesplural
1. the parents of your own parents — that is, your grandmother and your grandfather
1.名詞A1
釋義
祖父母
父母的父母
the parents of your own parents — that is, your grandmother and your grandfather considered together as a pair or as a family group.
例句
Quan and his sister visit their grandparents in Tainan every summer.
Quan 和妹妹每年夏天都到臺南探望祖父母。
countable plural noun; possessive determiner 'their' + grandparents
Ravindra's grandparents gave him a camera for his twelfth birthday.
Ravindra 的祖父母在他十二歲生日時送了他一台相機。
grandparents as subject of active verb (gave)
Greta showed her grandparents the painting she made at school.
Greta 把在學校畫的畫拿給祖父母看。
Every Sunday Nia calls her maternal grandparents to tell them about her week.
Nia 每週日都會打電話給她的外祖父母，跟他們聊聊一週的生活。
反義詞
- grandchildren
the children of one's child — the generation below rather than above
文法句型
grandparents + plural verb
someone's + grandparents
常見錯誤
❌My great-grandparents live in Kaohsiung.' (when the speaker means just grandparents)
✅My grandparents live in Kaohsiung.
💡great-grandparents are two generations above you, not one.