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# adoptive

«adoptive» in Mova's school dictionary: **Adoptive describes the family who adopts a child:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (adoptive)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Adoptive describes the family who adopts a child: adoptive parents, adoptive mother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoptive/#m1)

2) An adoptive home or country is one you choose and come to belong to. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoptive/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used gently in family talk and stories about adoption; the adopted child is «adopted», the parents are «adoptive».

### examples

- Ella loves her adoptive parents very much. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoptive/#x1)
- His adoptive mum came to the school play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoptive/#x2)
- Canada became her adoptive country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoptive/#x3)
- The adoptive family welcomed the puppy too. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoptive/#x4)
- Many children grow up happy with adoptive families. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoptive/#x5)
- Her adoptive brother taught her to ride a bike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoptive/#x6)

### note

Trap: the parents are adoptive, the child is adopted. Do not say «adopted parents» in careful writing. Adoptive parents are real parents in law and in love; birth parents are the ones who gave birth.

### In the corpora

- [The birth parents are the ones the child was born to; the adoptive parents are the ones who bring the child up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/1/)
- [Birth parents are the parents a child was born to; adoptive parents are the parents who bring the child up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/38/)
- [Adoptive parents are real parents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/39/)
- [Adoptive families can look different from each other; staring is rude, and a child chooses what to share.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/45/)
- [Adoptive parents are real parents; a calm, proud answer can stop a cruel comment.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/47/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «adoptive» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoptive/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.