Mujer que tiene los mismos padres que otra persona.
A girl or woman with the same parents as someone.
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Mi hermana menor estudia medicina. — My younger sister studies medicine.
¿Tienes una hermana mayor? — Do you have an older sister?
Le pedí ayuda a mi hermana con la mudanza. — I asked my sister for help with the move.
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Download the app for free Spanish vocabulary testHermanos is the word to watch: like hijos, it covers both sexes at once, so tengo dos hermanos usually means two siblings rather than two brothers. Only hermanas narrows it to sisters, and Spanish speakers add the detail when it matters — dos hermanos, un chico y una chica.
The word comes from Latin germanus, of the same parents — the root behind English cousin-german and the adjective germane, and nothing whatever to do with Germany. Two neighbours are worth keeping apart: media hermana is a half-sister, sharing one parent, while hermanastra is a stepsister, sharing none. Capitalised, Hermana is how a nun is addressed.
hermano brother
The masculine, and the form that absorbs the plural for a mixed set.
hermanos siblings
The plural on its own card, precisely because English needs a different word for it.
hija daughter
The same trick one generation down: hijos means children, not sons.
madre mother
Who the hermanas share. Media hermana means sharing only one parent, not half a mother.
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