"Chúng tôi là anh em."

Translation: We are brothers.

[HollyPrizy]

This could also mean we are siblings with the elder being a boy and the younger being a girl or boy

[JudithWats]

Or "we are brother and sister".

[Lazuli_Love]

I thought em would always mean "younger". So that's Not right?

[XieC2]

Together, the phrase anh em means brothers or siblings (where there are no older sisters).

• anh = older brother
• em = younger siblings

The phrase anh chị em is used when you want to be exhaustively exclusive.

[George_Nam]

Why not "We are older brothers?"

[ecYTPuiR]

Because em means younger.

[KflHZ]

Confused. Why not we are younger brothers?