Let’s go with another vocabulary listing. This time it is the turn for the near family,
very near family.
After a
hard investigation I have reached the conclusion that knowing all the names for
chinese relatives is nearly impossible. Your brother-in-law’s brother’s cousin
will probably have an especific word which will depend for sure if he is
married to your elder sister or your younger sister or even if the cousin
belongs to the mother’s family or the father’s one. And of course, if this is
not diffiult enough, you will always have a formal and an informal way to say
it.
