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Family and life events — 家族と人生の節目

Ancestors, relatives, grandchildren, in-laws, engagement, pregnancy, growing up, growing old, inheritance, care. Read each word aloud with its reading, then write it once on the line — in kana if you cannot yet write the kanji.

せんぞ noun
先祖 ancestor
しんぞく noun
親族 relatives, kin
まご noun
孫 grandchild
おい noun
甥 nephew
めい noun
姪 niece
  noun
いとこ cousin
ぎり noun
義理 in-law (prefix); duty, obligation
よめ noun
嫁 bride; daughter-in-law
むこ noun
婿 bridegroom; son-in-law
こんやく noun
婚約 engagement
しんこん noun
新婚 newly married
にんしん noun
妊娠 pregnancy
しゅっさん noun
出産 childbirth
たんじょう noun
誕生 birth
せいちょう noun
成長 growth
おいる verb
老いる to grow old
こうれい noun
高齢 advanced age, elderly
いさん noun
遺産 inheritance, heritage
かいご noun
介護 nursing care (of the elderly)
いくじ noun
育児 childcare, child-rearing
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Family and life events — from memory

Cover page 1. Write the Japanese for each meaning (kana is fine), then write what each word in part 2 means. Page 1 is the answer key.

1    Write the Japanese
pregnancy
noun
grandchild
noun
childcare, child-rearing
noun
cousin
noun
nephew
noun
newly married
noun
to grow old
verb
bride; daughter-in-law
noun
childbirth
noun
birth
noun
2    What does it mean?
親族
遺産
婚約
姪
婿
介護
先祖
義理
成長
高齢
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