What do you call your mother-in-law?

If your mother-in-law asks to be called Mother Smith, so be it. If the answer is Mom, call her Mom. When everyone’s parents are present, you may call your own parents Mom and Dad and your spouse’s parents Mother Jones and Father Jones. In all cases, using a pronoun instead of an actual name is an absolute no-no.

Is it parents in law or parent in laws?

The plural form of parent-in-law is parents-in-law. If a woman be married, it is good that she should treat her parents-in-law with filial piety, and her husband with reverence.

What do the parents of the bride and groom call each other?

There’s a specific term for the relationship between people whose children marry each other: co-parents-in-law. The relationship between people whose children marry each other: the parents of the bride vis-à-vis the parents of the groom.

What do you call your husband’s parents?

father-in-law
A father-in-law is the father of a person’s spouse. Two men who are fathers-in-law to each other’s children may be called co-fathers-in-law, or, if there are grandchildren, co-grandfathers.

What does Machatunim meaning?

In Yiddish, your parents and your spouse’s parents would be machatunim (approximate pronunciation: mah-cha-tuh-num, with the “cha” rolled in the back of your throat). In Spanish, they would be consuegros, roughly, “co-in-laws.” Perhaps it’s time for English to adopt such a term.

What do I call my wife’s family?

Your husband or wife’s family are your in-laws. You call members of your spouse’s family “mother-in-law”, “brother-in-law”, and so on. But that usually stops with immediate family.

What do I call my brother’s wife?

sister-in-law
sister-in-law the wife of your brother.

How do you address your mother?

Most languages have formal ways of addressing ones mother like “Dear mother” and informal ways like “Mom”, “Mum”, “Mommy”, “Mummy” “Mama”, “mama mia” ‘mutti” etc.