Here’s an extensive list of all the French family vocabulary, with close and extended family members you ever might need to use in French.

Immediate Family Vocabulary

The nouns for people

a girlune fille
a boyun garçon
a womanune femme
a manun homme
a personune personne

The family relationships

Notice that enfant in French is not “infant” in English, but “child.” An infant, or baby, is a bébé.

a motherune mère
a fatherun père
a sisterune soeur
a brotherun frère
a daughterune fille
a sonun fils
a childun enfant
a babyun bébé
a familyune famille
a sister-in-lawune belle-sœur
a brother-in-lawun beau-frère
a mother-in-lawune belle-mère
a father-in-lawun beau-père

Extended Family

Grandparents and Grandchildren

In most cases, the gender neutral word “child” in English is identical to the male form of the word in French.

a grandmotherune grand-mère
a grandfatherun grand-père
a great-grandmotherune arrière-grand-mère
a grand-grandfatherun grand-grand-père
a granddaughterune petite-fille
a grandsonun petit-fils
a grandchildun petit-fils

Step Family

Stepfamily relationships are modified with the appropriate beau/belle/beaux/belles form, depending on the gender and number of the family member(s).

a stepmotherune belle-mère
a stepfatherun beau-père
a stepdaughterune belle-fille
a stepsonun beau-fils
a stepchildun beau-fils

Aunts and Uncles

an auntune tante
an uncleun oncle
a cousinun cousin
a nieceune niece
a nephewun neveu
a great-auntune grand-tante
a great-uncleun grand-oncle