![]() I've seen a couple of discussions on various boards where people said that to them it sounded just plain silly. o)ĭ) In some regions, you don't use Omi and Opi at all. (We also had special nicknames for mom's parents but not for dad's.) As a teen, I started to resent the implication: Omi and Öpi we loved, but Oma and Opa not so much? So I started calling Omi Oma too (Öpi was long dead.)Ĭ) Despite my noble reason, I suspect that as a teen, you simply become embarrassed about calling your grandparents Omi and Opi. So my sister, when she was little, started calling my mum's folks Omi and Öpi, my dad's Oma and Opa. My father's mother was more fun (she would read to us, play card games with us and watch T.V., while my mum's mother was rather boring that way) but even so they were more distant. when my mum was in hospital for a prolonged stay), my father's only when it fitted in with their own plans. My mother's parents were there for us whenever we needed them (e.g. Also, you might adress your grandma as Omi, but you probably wouldn't use that word if you talked about her to your pals.ī) In my family, that was actually true. You would never call someone else's grandma Omi, but you would say e.g. diminutive, yes, but thus also more personal/loving/sentimental. īut there may be different rules in different families.Ī). Oma Margot (who is "Uroma" - or by joke: "Tick-Tack-Oma), Oma Kerstin, Opa Fritz. The granddaughter of my sister (three years old) calls them all "Oma" or "Opa" and adds the first name sometimes. ![]() Today there are often four-generation-families. ![]() There where mostly 3-generation families. There is also Uroma and Uropa who are the parents of Oma and Opa. While I said "Oma" and "Opa" to my grandparents, when I spoke to them, I said "mein Haselbacher Opa" or "Mein Steinacher Opa" when I spoke about them, for example. So you need another way to say who you mean. There is no difference in the names between "dad's mam" and "mam's mam". Ich liebe Oma means I love Grandma in German. My grandma had hearing problems, however, probably due to age. Meine Oma hatte Hrprobleme, jedoch wohl altersbedingt. My grandma bakes the most delicious cinnamon rolls in the world. The words Mama, Mami, Mutter, Mutti, Oma, Omi which have forms like die Tasche der. Oma (f.) Gromama (f.) Meine Oma backt die leckersten Zimtschnecken der Welt. I also heard "Großmutter" ("grandma") and "Großvater" ("grandpa") but it was not used in my own family. Show your grandmother how much you love her in the German language. The nouns of the German language have several properties, some unique. Hawaiian: In Hawaii, the formal word for grandmother is Kuku Wahine or Tutu Wahine, but many shorten this to Tutu. Greek: The Greek name for a grandmother is Yia-yia, but this too has several variations, including Yiayia, Yaya and Ya-ya. It depends on regions and family tradition, whether you use "Oma" or "Omi". German: Oma is the German name for grandmother.
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