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祖父母

zǔ fù mǔ

3-character word

What 祖父母 means

1. paternal grandparents

The characters in 祖父母

• 祖zǔancestor; forefather; grandparents
• 父fù(bound form) father; (bound form) male relative of father's generation…
• 母mǔmother; elderly female relative; origin

Example sentences

• 露西被她的祖父母揶揄。
  Lùxī bèi tā de zǔfùmǔ yéyú.
  Lucy was bantered by her grandparents.
• Lucy是被她的祖父母养大的。
  Lucy was brought up by her grandparents.
• 我的一些小学同学都已经是祖父母了。
  Some of my classmates from primary school are already grandmothers and grandfathers.
• 我的祖父母来自里斯本，但是我的父母来自里约热内卢。
  Wǒ de zǔfùmǔ láizì Lǐsīběn, dànshì wǒ de fùmǔ láizì Lǐyuērènèilú.
  My grandparents are from Lisbon, but my parents are from Rio de Janeiro.
• 虽然我们大多数人比我们的父母、祖父母还要富裕得多，但是与之相应的快乐程度却没有多大的改变。
  Suīrán wǒmen dàduōshù rén bǐ wǒmen de fùmǔ, zǔfùmǔ hái yào fùyù de duō, dànshì yǔ zhī xiāngyìng de kuàilè chéngdù què méiyǒu duōdà de gǎibiàn.
  While most of us are significantly better off financially than our parents and grandparents, happiness levels haven't changed to reflect that.

Words containing 祖父母

• 曾祖父母zēng zǔ fù mǔgreat-grandparents