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# grandma

«grandma» in Mova's school dictionary: **a friendly word for grandmother: the mother of your…** — 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

noun (a grandma, grandmas; Grandma as a name)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Grandma is a friendly word for grandmother: the mother of your mother or of your father. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandma/#m1)

2) Grandma is also used as a name when you talk to her: «Hi, Grandma!» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandma/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and stories grandmas are family members who may look after children, cook, tell stories and share family history. Other words: granny, gran, nana, nan, grandmother. Phrases: Grandma's house, visit Grandma, great-grandma.

### examples

- I'm going to Grandma's house this weekend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandma/#x1)
- Grandma, can you read me a story? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandma/#x2)
- My grandma is my mum's mum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandma/#x3)
- Grandma makes the best apple pie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandma/#x4)
- I have two grandmas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandma/#x5)
- Grandma told us stories about when she was little. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandma/#x6)
- We video-called Grandma on her birthday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandma/#x7)
- My great-grandma is Grandma's mother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandma/#x8)

### note

Write «Grandma» with a capital letter when you use it as her name («Hi, Grandma»), but «my grandma» with a small letter. Plural: grandmas. In maths family problems: a grandma is two generations older than you. Someone online saying «I'm your grandma's friend» is still a stranger.

### In the corpora

- [Families have hard choices to make: a carer at home, a care home, or looking after Grandma themselves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/3/)
- [Grandma says AI is like the telephone: scary at first, then normal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/25-future-fears-rules/0/)
- [You remember Mia's tummy ache and Chloe's grandma's birthday, and you "lived" a rainy school trip.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/27-who-you-are-words-not-body/0/)
- [The families and birthdays in your lessons belong to characters, not to you; you have no grandma of your own.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/27-who-you-are-words-not-body/9/)
- [Grandma's best silver spoons come out of the drawer dull and almost black, even though nobody has used them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/14-tarnish-and-how-metals-change/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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