My wife's father is my father-in-law.
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Father-in-law
//ˈfɑːðəɹɪnˌlɔː//
Synonyms for "father-in-law" (1 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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191 translations across 128 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- skoonpa noun (one's spouse's father)
Albanian
1 entries- vjehërr noun (one's spouse's father)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- πενθερός noun (one's spouse's father)
- ἑκυρός noun (one's spouse's father)
Arabic
1 entries- حَم noun (one's spouse's father)
Aramaic
1 entries- חמא noun (one's spouse's father)
Armenian
2 entries- աներ noun (one's spouse's father)
- սկեսրայր noun (one's spouse's father)
Aromanian
1 entries- socru noun (one's spouse's father)
Asturian
1 entries- suegru noun (one's spouse's father)
Avar
1 entries- вакьад noun (one's spouse's father)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- qayınata noun (one's spouse's father)
Basque
1 entries- aitaginarreba noun (one's spouse's father)
Belarusian
2 entries- свёкар noun (one's spouse's father)
- цесць noun (one's spouse's father)
Bulgarian
2 entries- све́кър noun (one's spouse's father)
- тъст noun (one's spouse's father)
Burmese
1 entries- ယောက္ခထီး noun (one's spouse's father)
Catalan
1 entries- sogre noun (one's spouse's father)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- خەزوور noun (one's spouse's father)
Chinese
3 entries- 丈人 noun (one's spouse's father)
- 丈人公 noun (one's spouse's father)
- 大官 noun (one's spouse's father)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 公公 noun (one's spouse's father)
- 嫜 noun (one's spouse's father)
- 岳父 noun (one's spouse's father)
Church Slavic
2 entries- свекръ noun (one's spouse's father)
- тьсть noun (one's spouse's father)
Chuvash
1 entries- хуняҫа noun (one's spouse's father)
Cornish
1 entries- hwegron noun (one's spouse's father)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- qaynata noun (one's spouse's father)
Czech
2 entries- svekr noun (one's spouse's father)
- tchán noun (one's spouse's father)
Danish
1 entries- svigerfar noun (one's spouse's father)
Dutch
1 entries- schoonvader noun (one's spouse's father)
Eastern Mari
1 entries- ача noun (one's spouse's father)
Erzya
2 entries- атявт noun (one's spouse's father)
- вата noun (one's spouse's father)
Esperanto
1 entries- bopatro noun (one's spouse's father)
Estonian
1 entries- äi noun (one's spouse's father)
Ewe
1 entries- to noun (one's spouse's father)
Faroese
1 entries- verfaðir noun (one's spouse's father)
Fataluku
1 entries- painu noun (one's spouse's father)
Finnish
1 entries- appi noun (one's spouse's father)
French
1 entries- beau-père noun (one's spouse's father)
Friulian
2 entries- missêr noun (one's spouse's father)
- suesar noun (one's spouse's father)
Galician
1 entries- sogro noun (one's spouse's father)
Georgian
2 entries- მამამთილი noun (one's spouse's father)
- სიმამრი noun (one's spouse's father)
German
2 entries- Schwiegervater noun (one's spouse's father)
- Schwäher noun (one's spouse's father)
Gooniyandi
1 entries- lambadi noun (one's spouse's father)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐍃𐍅𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍂𐌰 noun (one's spouse's father)
Greek
1 entries- πεθερός noun (one's spouse's father)
Greenlandic
1 entries- sakeq noun (one's spouse's father)
Hebrew
2 entries- חָם noun (one's spouse's father)
- חוֹתֵן noun (one's spouse's father)
Hindi
2 entries- समधी noun (one's spouse's father)
- ससुर noun (one's spouse's father)
Hungarian
1 entries- após noun (one's spouse's father)
Hunsrik
1 entries- Schwiegherfatter noun (one's spouse's father)
Icelandic
1 entries- tengdapabbi noun (one's spouse's father)
Ido
1 entries- bopatro noun (one's spouse's father)
Ilocano
1 entries- katugangan a lalaki noun (one's spouse's father)
Indonesian
2 entries- ayah mertua noun (one's spouse's father)
- bapak mertua noun (one's spouse's father)
Ingrian
1 entries- äijä noun (one's spouse's father)
Interlingua
1 entries- patre affin noun (one's spouse's father)
Irish
1 entries- athair céile noun (one's spouse's father)
Italian
1 entries- suocero noun (one's spouse's father)
Japanese
3 entries- 岳父 noun (one's spouse's father)
- 義父 noun (one's spouse's father)
- 舅 noun (one's spouse's father)
Jeju
1 entries- 가시아방 noun (one's spouse's father)
Kashmiri
2 entries- ہِہُر noun (one's spouse's father)
- ہیُٛہُر noun (one's spouse's father)
Khmer
1 entries- ឪពុកក្មេក noun (one's spouse's father)
Korean
2 entries- 시아버지 noun (one's spouse's father)
- 장인 noun (one's spouse's father)
Lao
4 entries- ພໍ່ຜົວ noun (one's spouse's father)
- ພໍ່ເຖົ້າ noun (one's spouse's father)
- ພໍ່ເມັຽ noun (one's spouse's father)
- ສວະສູຣະ noun (one's spouse's father)
Latin
2 entries- patraster noun (one's spouse's father)
- socer noun (one's spouse's father)
Latvian
1 entries- ap' noun (one's spouse's father)
Livonian
2 entries- mīeizā noun (one's spouse's father)
- naizizā noun (one's spouse's father)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- pśichodny nan noun (one's spouse's father)
Lower Tanana
1 entries- to' nelanenh noun (one's spouse's father)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Schwéierpapp noun (one's spouse's father)
Macedonian
2 entries- свекор noun (one's spouse's father)
- тест noun (one's spouse's father)
Malay
2 entries- ayah mertua noun (one's spouse's father)
- bapa mertua noun (one's spouse's father)
Manx
1 entries- ayr 'sy leigh noun (one's spouse's father)
Marathi
1 entries- सासरा noun (one's spouse's father)
Mongolian
2 entries- хадам аав noun (one's spouse's father)
- ᠬᠠᠳᠠᠮ ᠠᠪᠤ noun (one's spouse's father)
Mwani
1 entries- mukwe noun (one's spouse's father)
Māori
2 entries- hungarei noun (one's spouse's father)
- hungawai noun (one's spouse's father)
Norman
1 entries- bieau-péthe noun (one's spouse's father)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- xezûr noun (one's spouse's father)
Northern Ohlone
1 entries- menék noun (one's spouse's father)
Northern Sami
2 entries- vuohppa noun (one's spouse's father)
- vuohppasássa noun (one's spouse's father)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- svigerfar noun (one's spouse's father)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- svigerfar noun (one's spouse's father)
- verfar noun (one's spouse's father)
Occitan
1 entries- sògre noun (one's spouse's father)
Odia
1 entries- ଶ୍ୱଶୁର noun (one's spouse's father)
Old English
1 entries- swēor noun (one's spouse's father)
Papiamentu
1 entries- suegu noun (one's spouse's father)
Pashto
1 entries- سخر noun (one's spouse's father)
Pennsylvania German
3 entries- Schwaer noun (one's spouse's father)
- Schwaerdaadi noun (one's spouse's father)
- Schwiegervadder noun (one's spouse's father)
Persian
3 entries- خسر noun (one's spouse's father)
- پدرزن noun (one's spouse's father)
- پدرشوهر noun (one's spouse's father)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Schwiavoda noun (one's spouse's father)
Polish
2 entries- teść noun (one's spouse's father)
- świekier noun (one's spouse's father)
Portuguese
1 entries- sogro noun (one's spouse's father)
Punjabi
4 entries- خُسَر noun (one's spouse's father)
- سَوہرا noun (one's spouse's father)
- سُسَر noun (one's spouse's father)
- ਖ਼ੁਸਰ noun (one's spouse's father)
Quechua
2 entries- kaka noun (one's spouse's father)
- kiwachi noun (one's spouse's father)
Romani
1 entries- sastro noun (one's spouse's father)
Romanian
1 entries- socru noun (one's spouse's father)
Russian
3 entries- свёкор noun (one's spouse's father)
- свёкр noun (one's spouse's father)
- тесть noun (one's spouse's father)
Sanskrit
1 entries- श्वशुर noun (one's spouse's father)
Sardinian
2 entries- socru noun (one's spouse's father)
- sogru noun (one's spouse's father)
Scots
1 entries- guid-faither noun (one's spouse's father)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- athair-cèile noun (one's spouse's father)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- punac noun (one's spouse's father)
- svekar noun (one's spouse's father)
- пунац noun (one's spouse's father)
- свекар noun (one's spouse's father)
Seri
1 entries- aaquéect ctam noun (one's spouse's father)
Sicilian
1 entries- sòggiru noun (one's spouse's father)
Slovak
2 entries- svokor noun (one's spouse's father)
- tesť noun (one's spouse's father)
Slovene
1 entries- tast noun (one's spouse's father)
Spanish
1 entries- suegro noun (one's spouse's father)
Swahili
1 entries- baba mkwe noun (one's spouse's father)
Swedish
1 entries- svärfar noun (one's spouse's father)
Sylheti
1 entries- ꠢꠃꠞ noun (one's spouse's father)
Tagalog
1 entries- biyanang-lalaki noun (one's spouse's father)
Tamil
1 entries- மாமனார் noun (one's spouse's father)
Taos
1 entries- tǫ̏ména noun (one's spouse's father)
Tarifit
1 entries- aḍeggʷar noun (one's spouse's father)
Tetum
1 entries- banin noun (one's spouse's father)
Thai
3 entries- พ่อตา noun (one's spouse's father)
- พ่อผัว noun (one's spouse's father)
- พ่อสามี noun (one's spouse's father)
Tigre
1 entries- ሐም noun (one's spouse's father)
Turkish
3 entries- kaynata noun (one's spouse's father)
- kayınbaba noun (one's spouse's father)
- kayınpeder noun (one's spouse's father)
Turkmen
1 entries- gaýynata noun (one's spouse's father)
Udi
1 entries- сейде noun (one's spouse's father)
Ukrainian
2 entries- све́кор noun (one's spouse's father)
- тесть noun (one's spouse's father)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- přichodny nan noun (one's spouse's father)
Urdu
3 entries- خُسَر noun (one's spouse's father)
- سَسُر noun (one's spouse's father)
- سُسَر noun (one's spouse's father)
Venetan
3 entries- mesiere noun (one's spouse's father)
- misiere noun (one's spouse's father)
- misiero noun (one's spouse's father)
Vietnamese
2 entries- cha chồng noun (one's spouse's father)
- cha vợ noun (one's spouse's father)
Volapük
1 entries- lüfat noun (one's spouse's father)
Votic
1 entries- äjje noun (one's spouse's father)
Võro
1 entries- äi noun (one's spouse's father)
Welsh
2 entries- chwegrwn noun (one's spouse's father)
- tad yng nghyfraith noun (one's spouse's father)
Yiddish
1 entries- שווער noun (one's spouse's father)
Zazaki
1 entries- vıstewre (diq) noun (one's spouse's father)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Tom is Mary's father-in-law.
Source: tatoeba (1028544)
My wife's father is my father-in-law, I am his son-in-law, and my father is my wife's father-in-law.
Source: tatoeba (1511186)
My father-in-law is a lawyer.
Source: tatoeba (1555874)
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