father

父、お父さん

子供の男性の親、または父親として子供を育てる男性。

やさしい英語で： A male parent, or a man who raises and cares for a child as a parent.

• My father works in a hospital.
• Her father taught her to swim.
• Many fathers share childcare equally with mothers.

類義語： dad, male parent

よく使う表現： my father, father of someone, single father, loving father

ご老人

年配の男性に敬意を込めて呼びかける言葉。

やさしい英語で： A respectful way of speaking to an older man.

• Sit here, father, and rest.
• Good father, may I help you across the road?
• Tell us, father, what life was like here long ago.

よく使う表現： come father, good father

子をもうける

自分の精子によって子供が生まれ、生物学上の父親になる。

やさしい英語で： To be the man whose sperm produces a child.

• He fathered three children.
• Who fathered her first child?
• The bull has fathered many healthy calves.

類義語： sire, beget

よく使う表現： father a child, father children, father a son