Cousin

"Cousin" in Finnish

pikkuserkku

(any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person’s extended family)

serkku

(person descended from a common ancestor by the same number of generations as another person)

serkku

(child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister)

serkku

(used as a term of address for someone whom one is close to; a title for such a person)

serkku

(used by a monarch to address another monarch, or a noble)

sukulainen

(any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person’s extended family)

veljes

(person of an ethnicity or nationality regarded as closely related to someone of another ethnicity or nationality)

käydä serkulla

(to visit a cousin or other relation)

pitää serkkuna

(to regard (oneself or someone) as a cousin to another person)

serkutella

(to address (someone) as “cousin”)

veljeillä

(to associate with someone on a close basis)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.