Family: How old is your mother?

Basic sentence
Basic sentencefamily
この記事は約2分で読めます。
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Key Sentence

First box: English, Second box: Romaji, Last box: Japanese writing and audio

How old is your mother?
o ka a sa n wa na n sa i de su ka
お母さん何さいですか。
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One by one

  • お母さん(お・かあ・さん) → your mother
  • は → no meaning
  • 何さい(なん・さい) → how old
  • です → is
  • か → ?
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Vocabulary

【Japanese Vocabulary】Somebody else's family
On this page, you can learn how to say people in a somebody else's family in Japanese.
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Grammar

【Japanese grammar】verb dictionary form + ことがすきです (ことが好きです/kotogasukidesu) = like to + verb
On this page, you can learn Japanese grammar to express what you like to do.
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Note

You can ask somebody’s age more politely with the sentence below:

お母さんはおいくつですか

How old is your mother?

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Review

Task 1: Change into Japanese.

  • How old is your younger brother?
  • How old is your uncle?

Task 2: Change into English.

  • お兄さんはおいくつですか。
  • お父さんは何さいですか。

Kanji

Task 3: Listen to answer what you hear in English.

Answer

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