Family
కుటుంబం
German nouns carry grammatical gender (der/die/das). For people, this usually lines up with biological sex — the closest Telugu parallel is the మహత్ (rational) noun class, which likewise tracks male vs. female for people through pronouns and verb agreement, though not quite as evenly as German's three-way split.
Grammar Comparison
వ్యాకరణ పోలిక
der/die for people ≈ Telugu's పురుష/స్త్రీ pronoun-and-verb split
der Vater (masc.) / die Mutter (fem.)
వాడు తండ్రి / ఆమె తల్లి (masc./fem. pronoun & verb agreement)
Telugu doesn't put der/die/das in front of nouns, but its pronoun system (వాడు, ఆమె) and matching verb endings already track male vs. female for people — the same underlying idea German expresses with articles. Learning German gender for family words is mostly memorizing which article, not learning a brand-new concept. One caveat worth remembering from the pronouns lesson: Telugu's verb-ending split is really masculine vs. everything-else (feminine and neuter share one ending), so it doesn't fully rehearse German's clean three-way der/die/das distinction — just the masculine/feminine half of it that matters for people.
Vocabulary
పదజాలం
- Telugu
- అమ్మamma
- English
- mother
- Telugu
- నాన్నnaanna
- English
- father
- Telugu
- సోదరుడుsodarudu
- English
- brother
- Telugu
- సోదరిsodari
- English
- sister
- Telugu
- అమ్మమ్మammamma
- English
- grandmother
- Telugu
- తాతయ్యthathayya
- English
- grandfather
- Telugu
- కొడుకుkoduku
- English
- son
- Telugu
- కూతురుkooturu
- English
- daughter