さい
Meanings
Counter
Suffix
1. -years-old
Kanji used
talent
Pitch accent
Top 20300
Used in vocabulary (79 in total)
talent; ability
genius; prodigy; natural gift
talented person; clever person
Examples (14 in total)
The boy was expelled from music school when he was 12.
I'm 30 years old.
She's eight years old.
"How old is she?" "She is twelve years old."
I will be fourteen years old tomorrow.
She isn't young anymore. She's at least 30 years old.
I learned to play guitar when I was ten years old.
In Japan children as young as 3 begin violin lessons.
He retired on a pension at the age of sixty.
Ten years have passed since I came to Tokyo at the age of eighteen.
Tom is three years older than I am, but he's shorter than I am.
In the U.S., most people can vote when they reach eighteen years of age.
In most countries, people under the age of 18 are considered minors - they cannot vote.
I began driving our tractor when I was 12 years old to help my father out at harvest time.