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Beginner Spanish · A1

How to say your age in Spanish

Ask someone's age and say yours.

I can ask someone's age and say mine.

You have your age

In Spanish you don't say you are thirty. You say you have thirty years: Tengo treinta años.

So the question is ¿Cuántos años tienes? How many years do you have?

Tengo veinte años.
I'm twenty (years old).

Useful words and phrases

¿cuántos años tienes?
how old are you?
tengo…
I have…
años
years
veinte
twenty
treinta
thirty
cuarenta
forty
  • ¿cuántos años tienes?: Word for word: how many years do you have?
  • años: Keep the ñ. Without it, the word means something rude!

Happy birthday, Lucía

🎂 Lucía's birthday at the café

  1. Sam

    ¡Feliz cumpleaños, Lucía!

    Happy birthday, Lucía!

  2. Lucía

    ¡Gracias, Sam!

    Thanks, Sam!

  3. Sam

    ¿Cuántos años tienes?

    How old are you?

  4. Lucía

    Tengo treinta años. ¿Y tú?

    I'm thirty. And you?

  5. Sam

    Tengo veinte años.

    I'm twenty.

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