The Finnish word for family is
perhe
Translations for family and their definitions
| perhe | |
| 1. n. family, nuclear family (parents and children, cf. suku) |
| suku | |
| 1. n. extended family (meaning kin: in addition to parents and children, includes cousins, uncles, aunts, grandparents and farther relatives, cf. perhe). | |
| 2. n. (taxonomy) genus | |
| 3. n. (linguistics) gender | |
| 4. n. (linguistics) used in partitive singular as English adjective cognate (descended from the same source lexeme of ancestor language) | |
| Englannin mother on sukua kreikan sanalle μητέρα (mētéra). | |
| English mother is cognate to Greek μητέρα (mētéra). |
| heimo | |
| 1. n. tribe | |
| 2. n. (taxonomy) family |
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