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  • Checked October 2026

Spanish Family Quiz

One person on the family tree lights up, and you pick who it is in Spanish.

Spanish Family Quiz

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Who is this in Spanish?

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Write the name of each numbered word.Answer key

  1. el abuelo
  2. la abuela
  3. el padre
  4. la madre
  5. el tío
  6. la tía
  7. la hermana
  8. el hermano
  9. el bebé
  10. el primo
  11. los padres
  12. los abuelos

The site's own drawing of 2026-10-02, first made for the English family members page and used here unchanged. Licence: own work.

Each numbered ring is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a word is answered.

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Grandparents' row 2

  1. el abuelo grandfather Grandfather. On this tree, the mother's father.
  2. la abuela grandmother Grandmother. On this tree, the mother's mother.

Parents' row 4

  1. el padre father Father. The informal word is el papá, dad.
  2. la madre mother Mother. The informal word is la mamá, mom.
  3. el tío uncle Uncle: a brother of your mother or father.
  4. la tía aunt Aunt. Los tíos is an aunt and uncle together.

Children's row 4

  1. la hermana sister Sister.
  2. el hermano brother Brother. Los hermanos can mean brothers and sisters together.
  3. el bebé baby Baby. In Latin America a baby girl is also la bebé.
  4. el primo cousin Cousin. A girl cousin is la prima.

Two at once 2

  1. los padres parents Parents. The plural of el padre, father.
  2. los abuelos grandparents Grandparents. The plural of el abuelo, grandfather.

How this list was compiled: Every label and every other Spanish word named here was read on 2026-10-08 in two dictionaries: the Spanish-English dictionary of WordReference (https://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen= followed by the word) and SpanishDict (https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/ followed by the word). Both give the gender and the family meaning of abuelo, abuela, padre, madre, tío, tía, hermano, hermana, bebé, primo, prima, papá, mamá, familia, pariente (a relative) and árbol genealógico (family tree), and both give the plurals los abuelos (grandparents), los padres (parents) and los papás (parents, informal). Bebé: WordReference calls it a noun of common gender and notes that Spain says el bebé for a boy or a girl while America says el bebé and la bebé; SpanishDict heads its entry el bebé, la bebé. Hermano: WordReference gives sibling as its neutral sense, and SpanishDict gives los hermanos as siblings or brothers. Los tíos as an aunt and uncle together is SpanishDict's entry (https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/t%C3%ADos). Papa without the accent, a potato in Latin America: both dictionaries. Yo, the pronoun I: both dictionaries. Who is whose child on the tree comes from the drawing. The wording of every line is our own. Licence: own work

The drawing: The site's own drawing of 2026-10-02, first made for the English family members page and used here unchanged. Own work: a made-up family drawn from plain geometry, nobody real, nothing traced. The one word on it, Me under the child the tree is read from, is English. Licence: own work

How it works

This Spanish family quiz asks twelve words from one family tree: el abuelo and la abuela at the top, the parents' row, the children's row and the two dashed loops.

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Telling the look-alikes apart

Every answer is read from the child with the star, marked Me. Two men stand in the middle row: el padre is inside the dashed loop with la madre, and el tío, the mother's brother, has the beard. In the bottom row el hermano stands next to Me, while el primo stands apart, under el tío and la tía. When a whole loop lights up, the answer is a plural: los padres or los abuelos.

Four pairs that end in o and a

El abuelo and la abuela, el tío and la tía, el hermano and la hermana, el primo and la prima: the man's word ends in o, the woman's in a. El padre and la madre are the one pair that does not.

Questions and answers

How do you say aunt and uncle in Spanish?

La tía is aunt and el tío is uncle. Said together, an aunt and an uncle are los tíos.

How do you say brother and sister in Spanish?

El hermano is brother and la hermana is sister. Los hermanos can mean brothers only, or brothers and sisters together.

How do you say grandma and grandpa in Spanish?

La abuela is grandmother, or grandma in everyday speech, and el abuelo is grandfather or granddad. The two together are los abuelos, grandparents.

How do you say baby in Spanish?

El bebé, with an accent on the last e. Spain says el bebé for a boy or a girl, and in Latin America a baby girl is also la bebé.

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