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年としをとる
Meanings
Expression
Verb (5-dan, る)
1. to grow old; to age
Alt. forms
年としを取とる
40%
年としをとる
25%
歳としを取とる
21%
歳としをとる
13%
Kanji used
年
year
Top 23000
Conjugations...Used in: 551
Composed of
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
to take; to pick up; to pass; to hand; to get; to obtain; to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.)
Examples (29 in total)
I am older than him.
This man is very, very old.
Their parents are older than ours.
He is as old as I.
He is much older than he looks.
Tom isn't as old as you.
He was too old to walk.
I will take care of you when you are old.
Mr Brown is not as old as he looks.
No matter how old you get, you can still learn.
He is too old.
Is the man old or young?
I may be too old.
We are getting older day by day.
Now that I'm older, I see things differently.
John's older than I thought.
As we age, our ability to remember gets worse.
As I grew older, my health declined.
We become forgetful as we grow older.
Now I am too old to walk.
As he grew older, he became more obstinate.
The older he grew, the more modest he became.
She became more and more beautiful as she grew older.
Mr. Kato was too old to work any longer.
The older you grow, the more you tend to adhere to fixed ideas.
The older we grow the less innocent we become.
You are young. I, on the other hand, am very old.
"I'm too old to be playing with bugs," said the boy.
When Mr Jones gets old, he will hand over his business to his son.