How do you say age in your language? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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In the languages of my ancestors, for example, if someone was 14 years old, they would be "14 år gammal" in Swedish (14 years old) and "14 Jahre alt" in German (14 years old), but in Italian, they would say "ho 14 anni" (I have 14 years).

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[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

岁 "sui" in Mandarin. The word itself is a quantity, so you put the number before it, like 二十二岁 for 22 years old. When you're describing the age of a person, that person is, not has, that quantity. So "I am 22" would be 我是二十二岁 ("wo shi er shi er sui").

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