vocabulary: people Flashcards
(92 cards)
adolescent
puber (young person who is developing into adult)
age
leeftijd (period of time someone has been alive)
generation
generatie (all people about the same age within a society)
infant
zuigeling (a baby: be born to 1 year)
middle-aged
van middelbare leeftijd
juvenile
jongere (relating to a young person who’s not old yet enough to be considered an adult)
young
jong (having lived for only a short time & not old)
minor
minderjarig (too young to have legal responsibilities of adult)
teenager
tiener (person who is between the age of 13-19)
adult
volwassene (person grown to full size & strength)
baby
baby (a very young child, not begun to talk & walk)
birth
geboorte (time a baby comes out of it’s mother’s body)
child
kind (boy/girl from time birth until adulthood)
dummy
Fops peen (rubber object given to suck to a baby to make it stop crying, comfort)
incubator
Couveuse (container that controls t° & air for a weak premature baby can be kept alive)
nappy
luier (soft clotch fastened around the babies bottom & between legs to absorb urine)
pram
kinderwagen (vehicle to move your baby around, consists a bed & a frame on 4 wheels)
premature
prematuur (happening or done too soon, before natural or suitable time)
teethe
tandjes krijgen (baby or small child is teething, causing pain/first teeth)
heir
erfgenaam (person who receives legally money/title from another person when they die)
parents-in-law
schoonouders (parents of husband/wife)
in-laws
schoonfamilie (your husband/wife’s family)
wife/husband
echtgenote/echtgenoot (person you’re married to)
son/daughter
zoon/dochter (male/female child)