mem

Betekenis

mother, mom

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/mɛm/

Etimologie

Probably from Old Frisian *mōme, from Proto-West Germanic *mōmā. Compare English mum.

Sinne

Ik bin mem fan twa bern , ien fan fjouwer en ien fan trije .

I am a mother of two children, one of four and one of three.

Neffens wat mem seit, moat er in goede skriuwer wêze .

According to what mom says, he must be a good writer.

Alles wat mem seit, is hielendal wier .

Everything mom says is completely true.

Wy hiene noch nea heard dat mem soks sei.

We had never heard mother say such a thing before.

Heit wie doe oer de tachtich en mem mear as santich jier .

Father was then in his eighties and mother more than seventy.

Bisto har mem ?

Are you her mother?

Har mem krige in beroerte en leit yn it sikehûs .

Her mother suffered a stroke and is in the hospital.

Yn har lêste brief skreau hja dat har mem ferstoarn wie.

In her last letter she wrote that her mother had died.