El hijo de tu hermano o de tu hermana.
The son of your brother or sister.
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See how the word “sobrino” is used in sentences
Mi sobrino cumple hoy seis años. — My nephew turns six today.
Le compré una bici a mi sobrino. — I bought a bike for my nephew.
¿Tu sobrino sigue en el colegio? — Is your nephew still at school?
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Download the app for free Spanish vocabulary testEnglish needs two words where Spanish needs one and a half. Sobrino is the nephew, sobrina the niece, but the masculine plural sobrinos covers a mixed set: mis sobrinos is my nieces and nephews together, and English has no ordinary word for that at all.
The word moved a generation on its way out of Latin. Sobrinus there meant a cousin on the mother's side; Spanish shifted it down to the next generation and left cousin to primo. One layer further gives sobrino nieto, the great-nephew — grandson-nephew, built out of the same pieces as nieto itself.
sobrina niece
The feminine, and a separate word in Spanish as in English. Only the plural merges them.
primo cousin
What sobrinus meant in Latin. The two words swapped places somewhere between Rome and Castile.
nieto grandson
The other direction down the family. Sobrino nieto borrows this word for the generation below a nephew.
tío uncle
The other end of the same relationship: you are the tío of your sobrino.
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