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Re: Expressing ages

From:Dan Jones <devobratus@...>
Date:Friday, March 28, 2003, 16:13
Nik Taylor wrote:
>Rachel Klippenstein wrote: > > My current favourite is to have special verb (let's > > call it "BYEO" - I'm not sure exactly what it'd be) > > that means "am years old" > >That would be an interesting idea. > >The Kassi say "I am in my [Xth] year", where X is age + 1. Thus, I'm >24, so I'd say "I'm in my 25th year"
In Arvorec one says "I have X years of age", or more precisely "there is X years of age with me". So, as I'm twenty I say: "Ath yw gaennyf ugaen bloeth an aed." Colloquially, this is "Thyw gaenny ugaen bloeth naed." Dan -------------------------------- Pa vezer o vageal e bae Douarnenez e klever a-wechoù un trouz iskis: Kleier kêr Is a zo a seniñ dinandan ar mor.