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# grandchild

«grandchild» in Mova's school dictionary: **a child of your son or daughter** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a grandchild, grandchildren)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A grandchild is a child of your son or daughter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandchild/#m1)

2) A grandchild can be a grandson (a boy) or a granddaughter (a girl). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandchild/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In family trees in school, a grandchild is two generations below the grandparents. In everyday life grandparents love visits from their grandchildren. In maths family problems, «each of her 3 children has 2 children» means 6 grandchildren. Phrases: first grandchild, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

### examples

- Granny has five grandchildren. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandchild/#x1)
- I am my grandad's only grandchild. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandchild/#x2)
- Their first grandchild was born last spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandchild/#x3)
- Nan sends all her grandchildren a birthday card. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandchild/#x4)
- Each of their 3 children has 4 children, so they have 12 grandchildren. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandchild/#x5)
- A great-grandchild is the child of your grandchild. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandchild/#x6)
- The grandchildren made a cake for Grandma. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandchild/#x7)

### note

Plural is «grandchildren» (like child → children). A grandchild's parents are the grandparent's son or daughter (or son-in-law or daughter-in-law). In maths, to count grandchildren, add the children of each of the grandparents' children.

### In the corpora

- [Lots of grandparents spoil their grandchildren: they often have more time and fewer rules than busy parents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad/2/)
- [Many grandparents spoil their grandchildren because they have more time and fewer rules than busy parents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad/29/)
- [Calls from grandchildren mean a lot to grandparents far away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/25/)
- [onUk is grandson and onUka granddaughter, the granny's words for her grandchildren.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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