Talking About Family

khanevadeh chetor-an? hame khub-an?

How's the family? Is everyone good?

A very common, everyday way to ask about a friend's family.

khanevadeh-ye mohtaram chetor-and? salam-e man ro beheshun beresunid.

How is your respected family? Give them my regards.

Use this polite phrasing with colleagues or older acquaintances.

bebakhshid, shoma ezdevaj kardid ya mojarrad hastid?

Excuse me, are you married or single?

Direct but polite enough for getting to know someone.

na baba, man hanuz mojarradam. ghasd-e ezdevaj ham nadaram!

No man, I'm still single. I don't intend to get married either!

'na baba' is a very common informal filler meaning 'no way' or 'nah'.

man se sal-e ke ezdevaj kardam, amma hamsaram hanuz tu shahr-e khodemun zendegi mikone.

I've been married for three years, but my spouse still lives in our hometown.

Uses the present perfect correctly to state how long you have been married.

bachche ham darid? ya faghat do nafari zendegi mikonid?

Do you have kids too? Or do you just live as two people?

A conversational way to ask if a couple has started a family.

aya shoma va hamsaretan farzandi ham darid?

Do you and your spouse have any children?

'farzand' is the slightly formal and respectful word for child/children.

are, ye dokhtar-e kuchik o ye pesar daram ke madrese mire.

Yeah, I have a little daughter and a son who goes to school.

Uses the relative clause marker 'ke' (who/that) very naturally.

na, ma hanuz bachche-i nadarim, chon taze ezdevaj kardim.

No, we don't have any children yet, because we just got married.

Uses 'chon' (because) to connect ideas.

khahar baradar dari ya tak-farzandi?

Do you have brothers and sisters, or are you an only child?

Notice how the 'va' (and) is dropped entirely in the spoken compound 'khahar baradar'.

shoma chand ta khahar o baradar darid? aya az shoma bozorgtar hastand?

How many brothers and sisters do you have? Are they older than you?

Standard phrasing for asking about family size.

man faghat ye baradar-e bozorgtar daram ke alan daneshgah mire.

I just have one older brother who goes to university now.

A typical sentence using a comparative adjective and an embedded clause.

man bachche akharam, do ta khahar daram ke har do ezdevaj kardan.

I'm the youngest, I have two sisters who are both married.

'bachche akharam' literally means 'I am the last child'.

khanevadeh-ye shoma tehran zendegi mikonan ya shahrestan hastan?

Does your family live in Tehran or are they in another city?

'shahrestan' means 'county' or 'province', but here it means any city outside Tehran.

pedar o madaram esfahan hastan, baraye hamin man inja tanha zendegi mikonam.

My parents are in Isfahan, therefore I live here alone.

Uses 'baraye hamin' (for this reason/therefore) to link the two statements.