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Illustration of the A1 German word “der Großvater”, which translates to “grandfather”. A giant silver-haired man sitting cross-legged on a mountaintop, reading a storybook so large that its open pages become the valley floor below.
A giant silver-haired man sitting cross-legged on a mountaintop, reading a storybook so large that its open pages become the valley floor below.

der Großvater , ¨

A1 · noun

grandfather

/ˈɡʁoːsˌfaːtɐ/

Plural

Plural die Großväter

Großvater in a sentence

Examples

Mein Großvater erzählt Geschichten.

My grandfather tells stories.

Ich besuche meinen Großvater oft.

I often visit my grandfather.

How to remember it

GROSS-VATER sounds like 'GROSS-fah-ter'. Your grandfather is 'grossly' (very) much your 'father' (Vater)'s father.

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