Wednesday, August 5, 2015

¿Cuántos años tienes?

How old are you?

¿Cuántos (How many) años (years) tienes (you have)? (click on the link for sound)

If you ask this 'literally' in Chinese of English, this would be really impolite. It is would be asking how many more years you are going to live, but this is Spanish, this is simply asking how old are you.

Note the inverted question mark at the beginning of the question. It is an open question mark, it marks the starting of a question.

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