12.3 Age

To indicate someone’s age, we say the number and then add the classifier 歲 seoi3 (‘year old’). Notice 歲 seoi3 is used alone without a noun in the example below.

歲 seoi3 is a measurement unit classifier. Measurement unit classifiers are a group of measure classifiers for quantities like time, weight, length and money. Some of them can be used alone without a noun. We will learn other measurement unit classifiers in later lessons.