A1 · Grammar reference
Age with "sui"
Use 岁 (suì) to give a person's age, similar to how we say "years old" in English. There are a details that work differently from English, however.
- Keywords
- 岁 · years old
- Used for
- Introducing people · Describing people
- Classification
- Numbers · HSK1
Examples (8)
我20岁。
我儿子一岁。
我妈妈今年45岁。
你爷爷今年80岁吗？
他女朋友也20岁吗？
我的孩子一岁。
她两岁半。
我儿子一岁半。
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Summary, structure, classification, and adapted sentence examples draw from the AllSet Learning Chinese Grammar Wiki under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0; changes were made. This noncommercial reference is based on an October 2023 snapshot.
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