2013年12月11日 · Here the "older" in "my older sister" means that the sister is older than the speaker. However, "my oldest" sister would be with respect to the ages of the other sisters and …

2017年6月13日 · We do say "my older sister" and "my younger sister", but there is no phrases for "the 1st, 2d, 3d of my older sisters". Birth order is rarely mentioned. For example, if you have …

2018年8月24日 · I can't think of any instance where I would be likely to hear elder sister instead of big sister in talking about family relations in U.S. English. If I had more than one sister older …

2007年1月12日 · Now comes the problem. There is no obvious way of saying that she is my "younger younger sister", i.e. younger sister because she's younger than me and younger …

2006年12月19日 · Everyone. Please help me. I was doing my homework on my desk, then all of a sudden my older sister walks in nonchalantly. She asks me if I need any help, and she wraps …

2014年3月24日 · Why it only applies to older sister? Well, you will find a lot of Chinese kinship addresses NOT symmetrical... I have a Cantonese-speaking colleague who used to ask me …

2013年12月17日 · The quoted source does not state that elder is preferable to older, but rather that elder may be used when comparing ages - and that this especially occurs when …

2011年3月29日 · Well everyone, I keep wondering about this for a while. When someone says "I have a sister ." If she doesn't say anything else, how are you supposed to know whether she …

2014年11月30日 · @TRomano “My older little sister” (for some reason, elder just sounds very strange to me here) would make both points of comparison clear: she’s a little sister, so she’s …

2023年5月5日 · "I've got an older sister" means that your sister is merely older than the speaker is--she might still be relatively young, for all that. "I have an old sister" means that the sister is …