La Familia.

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I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

Let's learn some new nouns that will help us talk about people in Spanish,

especially words for family members. We'll begin by learning the word

for family, which is the feminine noun, familia. For example, he loves my family.

The word for father is Padre and the word for mother is Madre.

For example, my father is here, but not my mother.

My father is here, but my mother.

To talk about parents in general, you'll simply use Padres.

For example, the parents do that sometimes.

Los Padres do that sometimes.

When you talk about one individual parent,

Madre and Padre are slightly formal, kind of like the words mother and father in English.

The more informal words for mom and dad are

Mama and Papa, with an accent mark on the last A in each case,

Mama and Papa.

For example, my dad doesn't know where my mom went.

Let's practice these words. I knew she was her mother.

I knew that was her mother.

I knew that was her mother. I knew that was her mother.

If I knew where my dad is, I could do that.

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