grandmother

grandmother — 名詞

1. the mother of one of your parents; a woman whose son or daughter has given birth

1.名詞A2
釋義

祖母；外祖母

父親或母親的母親

the mother of one of your parents; a woman whose son or daughter has given birth to a child of their own.

例句

Aiko visits her grandmother in the countryside every summer to help with the vegetable garden.

Aiko 每年夏天都去鄉下探望祖母，幫忙整理菜園。

visits her grandmother — common verb + collocation pattern

Leila's grandmother taught her how to make dumplings from scratch using a secret family recipe.

Leila 的外祖母教她如何從頭包水餃，用的是家傳祕方。

possessive noun + grandmother — showing kinship relationship

同義詞
  • grandma

    informal, very common in spoken English; shorter and warmer than 'grandmother'

  • nana

    informal, used especially by young children or in British English

  • granny

    informal, sometimes considered old-fashioned but still widely used

用法筆記

In Traditional Chinese, the exact term depends on which side of the family: 祖母 (zǔmǔ) or 奶奶 (nǎinai) for the father's mother, and 外祖母 (wàizǔmǔ) or 外婆 (wàipó) for the mother's mother. Colloquially, 奶奶 and 外婆 are far more common in daily speech.