14.1 Children’s Age

When we indicate children’s age, we can optionally add the adjective 大 daai6 (‘old’) after the age. We usually only add 大 daai6 if the age is from 0 to 10.

We can add 半 bun3 (‘half’) after 歲 seoi3 to mean ‘… and a half years old’.

We can add 幾 gei2 (‘and slightly more’) after 歲 seoi3 to mean ‘… year old and slightly more’.

For half a year old, we put 半 bun3 before 歲 seoi3.

For infants less than 1 year old, we can indicate their age in months, like how we indicate duration in months. Notes that we always add 大 daai6 after the age if it is in months.

We can add the adverbs 就快 zau6 faai3 (‘soon’) or 差唔多 caa1 m4 do1 (‘almost’) before an age.