Post #100783
2025-12-30 03:37 UTC
Replies (22)
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@davel@lemmy.ml 2025-12-30 03:41
Spanish: *Tengo catorce anos* == *I have fourteen buttholes* And this is why you shouldn’t skimp on your tildes.
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@Object@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-30 04:10
It's just \살 for us. [The way the age is counted is a bit different](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning). If you were using the standard way of calculating the age, you add 만 in front of it.
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@spongebue@lemmy.world 2025-12-30 04:19
In my first language (English) a 14-year-old would day "I am 14 years old" which means "I am 14 years old" In my distant second language (Spanish) they would say "tengo 14 años" which, like Italian, means "I have 14 years"
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@Skunk@jlai.lu 2025-12-30 05:44
In French it’s like in Italian, 'j’ai quatorze ans' (I have 14 years). Sometimes people are saying their next age, 'je vais sur mes quinze ans' (I am going to my 15 years).
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@rmuk@feddit.uk 2025-12-30 10:50
I'm from the North of England and we say "_aye! t'was onna night most un'nartual, when good folk did pull down the shutters and bring their children reet close and 'uddle themselves away, for they couldn't rightly say if they wus hearing the howling of t'wind, the shrieking orra newborn, or the wailin of the beast, in this very valley [x] years/moons ago_" and I think that's beautiful.
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@IHatePepRallies@discuss.online 2025-12-30 06:37
Ich bin 14 Jahre alt мне 14 лет
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@Txopi@lemmy.ml 2025-12-30 14:27
In Basque language we say "14 urte ditut" (literally *"I am 14 years"*). Some people say "14 urte dauzkat" (literally *"I have 14 years"*), probably due to Spanish language influence.
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@HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 2025-12-31 01:38
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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@200ok@lemmy.world 2025-12-30 03:44
Age
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@oculi@anarchist.nexus 2025-12-30 07:47
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@Zeusz13@lemmy.world 2025-12-30 12:57
In Hungarian you would say "14 éves vagyok" "vagyok" means "I am" "éves" is "év" meaning "year" + "es" which is a suffix turning nouns into adjectives.
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@undeffeined@lemmy.ml 2025-12-30 18:18
Tenho catorze anos. In Portuguese. Spelled out the number to make it weirder 😃
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@Soulphite@reddthat.com 2025-12-30 15:54
In my mother tongue, English, I specifically and annoyingly tell people how many trips I have taken around Sol. That number represents my age.
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@TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-30 09:25
In Hebrew you say "I am the child of X years" אני בן\בת ארבע עשרה Also the language is horrifically gendered. It's not my first language, but I know a bit
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@Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 2025-12-30 12:51
In Plattdeutsch, it's Johr ik bün veerten Johr oold
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@hoagecko@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-31 06:37
In Japanese, the English phrase “12 years old” is written as ‘12歳’ or “12才”. Both “歳” and ‘才’ are read as “sai,” and “歳” is the standard form. As an exception, since children in elementary education typically learn the character “歳” before “才,” it is sometimes common to write ages as “12才” during the period after learning ‘才’ but before learning “歳.” reference: [「年齢」を「年令」、「○歳」を「○才」と書くことがありますが、正式にはどうなのでしょうか？｜漢字文化資料館](https://kanjibunka.com/kanji-faq/jitai/q0165/) \(Article in Japanese\)
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@nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2025-12-31 04:40
in order to get it right I'd have to burp and fart and shit my pants
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@terminal@lemmy.ml 2025-12-30 12:09
Government docs use the international style for age, but in normal conversations people assume you are using traditional age unless otherwise specified.
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@Object@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-30 11:05
Too socially prevalent. Most people know about this change, but they still use the old one. Anything official are now using the standard age, though. Anyone born on Jan 1st stays one year old for the whole year since people gain age every time the year changes. This does mean that a person can be born on Dec 31st, and be two year old next day.
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@cl4p_tp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2025-12-31 08:24
I expected one of these. 😁
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@cl4p_tp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-01-01 13:50
God's Own Citizen
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@Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org 2025-12-30 10:54
വയസ്സ്(Vayassu), പ്രായം(Prayam) in [Malayalam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam) വയസ്സ്/പ്രായം 15 ആയ ആൾ(15 vayassu/praayam aaya) -> Person aged 15 Not sure if the transliteration is phonetically correct. And it seems formal. Maybe someone else can provide a better reply