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Reply #1 - 2008 March 07, 8:37 pm
crawdkenny New member
From: us Registered: 2008-02-01 Posts: 4

This has had me curious for a long time now. In Japanese, I know there's no word for "brother" or "sister" without specifying older or younger (兄、弟、姉、妹） but what happens if the person's a twin? This also goes for 伯父さん　叔父さん　叔母さん and 伯母さん)

Reply #2 - 2008 March 07, 9:30 pm
zazen666 Member
From: japan Registered: 2007-08-09 Posts: 667

I dont know the kanji, but the word for twin is ?futago?

Maybe this?

双子

Reply #3 - 2008 March 07, 9:55 pm
johnzep Member
From: moriya, ibaraki Registered: 2006-05-14 Posts: 373

I have a twin brother, I usually just say 弟　since I'm five minutes older,　unless I'm actually talking about having a twin in which case I specify 双子　or 双子の弟

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Reply #4 - 2008 March 07, 11:48 pm
Smackle Member
Registered: 2008-01-16 Posts: 463

I have heard few other pairs of twins refer to each other by who was the first to come out and who was the second. I have never heard someone refer to their twin neutrally so far.

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