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)

常見搭配
  • maternal grandparents
  • paternal grandparents
  • someone's grandparents
  • visit grandparents
  • stay with grandparents
  • grandparents' house
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.

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常用片語

  • maternal grandparents
  • paternal grandparents
  • great-grandparents

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