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English translation: paternal grandparents


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Spanish term or phrase:abuelos paternos
English translation:paternal grandparents
Entered by: William Pairman
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20:40 Dec 17, 2004
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Psychology
Spanish term or phrase: abuelos paternos
Context: pre-adoption report
Recuerda un ambiente familiar próxumo y muy unido, los paseos y días de excusión con sus padres, las vacaciones en el pueblo de su padre o las visitas de fin de semana a sus abuelos paternos, los cuales vivían en la ciudad de Barcelona.

He remembers a close-knit family environment, going for a walk or on a trip with his parents, holidaying in his father’s village or visiting his grandparents **on his father’s side** at the weekends, who lived in the city of Barcelona.

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Bernadette Mora
Spain
Local time: 18:17
paternal grandparents
Explanation:
as an alternative

thousands of hits on google eg

PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS... In the painting, Kahlo based the portraits of her paternal grandparents on their photographs but modified her grandmother's features so that she bears a ...
entertainingamerica.thejewishmuseum.org/ kahlo/gallery_theme.php?id=grandparents - 10k - Cached - Similar pages


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offtime.onemoremonkey.com/ index.php?f=041023Paternal_grandparents - 36k - Cached - Similar pages


My Paternal GrandparentsMy Paternal Grandparents. In a rare photo of my dad's dad, taken in 1950, from left to right: Marion Franklin Reed, my grandfather ...
www.creativespirit.net/henryreed/photoalbum/page4.htm - 5k - Cached - Similar pages


Brian and his paternal grandparentsBrian and his grandparents - paternal. ... Brian with his parents Brian with his grandparents - maternal Brian with his grandparents - paternal More of Brian. ...
fp.enter.net/~gobrecht/brian_and_his_gp_patern.htm - 4k - Cached - Similar pages

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William Pairman
Local time: 18:17
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Summary of answers provided
5 +10paternal grandparents
William Pairman
5 +4paternal grandparentsbigedsenior
5 +4paternal grandparents
Patrice
5 +2abuelos paternos
C. Aaron Palomino
4 +1grandparents on his/her father's side
BAmary


  

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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
grandparents on his/her father's side


Explanation:
Sds

BAmary
Local time: 12:17
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

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agree  Jo-Hanna Goettsche
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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
abuelos paternos


Explanation:
Si, o "por parte de padre."


C. Aaron Palomino
Local time: 18:17
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

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agree  Ismael Torres
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  -> Gracias

neutral  Gabriela Rodriguez: spanish - english
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  -> I would bet that before was english/spanish.....

agree  KRAT
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +10
paternal grandparents


Explanation:
as an alternative

thousands of hits on google eg

PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS... In the painting, Kahlo based the portraits of her paternal grandparents on their photographs but modified her grandmother's features so that she bears a ...
entertainingamerica.thejewishmuseum.org/ kahlo/gallery_theme.php?id=grandparents - 10k - Cached - Similar pages


Off Time: Paternal grandparents... Grandma Val Great Gran On the mat Baby chick Change mat Mischief making << >>. one more monkey. Paternal grandparents [23 Oct, 2004], ...
offtime.onemoremonkey.com/ index.php?f=041023Paternal_grandparents - 36k - Cached - Similar pages


My Paternal GrandparentsMy Paternal Grandparents. In a rare photo of my dad's dad, taken in 1950, from left to right: Marion Franklin Reed, my grandfather ...
www.creativespirit.net/henryreed/photoalbum/page4.htm - 5k - Cached - Similar pages


Brian and his paternal grandparentsBrian and his grandparents - paternal. ... Brian with his parents Brian with his grandparents - maternal Brian with his grandparents - paternal More of Brian. ...
fp.enter.net/~gobrecht/brian_and_his_gp_patern.htm - 4k - Cached - Similar pages



William Pairman
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +4
paternal grandparents


Explanation:
standard usage

Patrice
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paternal grandparents


Explanation:
Asi es. de la madre=maternal

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Jakob Heinrich Kahlo (Külo) and Henriette Kahlo (née Kaufmann) were originally from the city of Arad, which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is currently in Romania. ... Themes: Paternal Grandparents. Father and Daughter ... painting, Kahlo based the portraits of her paternal grandparents on their photographs but modified her grandmother\'s ...
http://entertainingamerica.thejewishmuseum.org/kahlo/gallery
_theme.php?id=grandparents

Paternal Grandparents
Paternal Grandparents. Leander Andrew Weidner. Olga Teigh-Weidner. This page last updated October 06, 2001
http://www.weidner.org/paternal_grandparents.html

Paternal Edelman Grandparents
Updated July 21, 1999. BEST VIEWED IN WIDE SCREEN. Paternal grandparents of my grandchildren. Charles L. Edelman & Eliza Ann. <great-great-great -great grandparents>
http://members.aol.com/megmenow/edel2.htm


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