【How old are you?】Let’s learn how to make a sentence to ask how old somebody is in Japanese.

On this page, you can learn how to ask how old somebody is in Japanese.

Key Sentence

• English: How old are you?
• Kana and Kanji: 何才ですか。
• Romaji: na n sa i de su ka

One by one

• 何さい（なんさい／na n sa i） → how old
• です → is, am, are
• か → ?

Note 1

Generally speaking, it is not polite to ask how old somebody is in Japan, especially if that is a woman, although people in Osaka often do not mind it.

Note 2

何さいですか。 is a simple but very direct way to ask how old somebody is. Instead, people in Japan would say おいくつですか。 more often.

Review

Task 1: Change into Japanese.

• How old are you?

Task 2: Change into English.

1. 何さいですか。
2. おいくつですか。

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