Family · People and relationships
extended family
wider relatives
Your relatives apart from your parents, children, brothers and sisters.
This vs that
My extended family live nearby.
My immediate family live nearby.
Hear it in real life
Who's coming to the wedding?
Quite a few people from my extended family, including my cousins.
Most of my extended family live in the north, so I only see them once or twice a year.
Which sounds natural?
Psst — which one would you actually say?
'Extended family' is the ordinary phrase for wider relatives.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: My extended family includes only my parents and my sister.
Say: My immediate family includes only my parents and my sister.
'Extended family' means relatives beyond your closest family.
Say it together
Whole chunks natives use with it.
spend time with the extended family
We usually spend time with the extended family during the summer holidays.
I hardly see my extended family during the year, so we make the most of family gatherings.
Phrases to borrow
More for talking about family.
be close to ___
I'm very close to my older sister.
come from a ___ family
I come from a fairly large family.
Family words
People and relationships · Family: the words around “extended family”.
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Your turn: say it out loud
A lot of my extended family live nearby.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
extended family
wider relatives
“Most of my extended family live in the north, so I only see them once or twice a year.”
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