年纪

年纪 niánjì in a sentence

Age

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 5 sentences

年纪 (niánjì) means Age. Below are 5 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

请问您多大 年纪 了?

Qǐngwèn nín duō dà niánjì le?

May I ask how old you are?

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 年纪

他 年纪 不大,经验却很多。

Tā niánjì bú dà, jīngyàn què hěn duō.

He is young but has a lot of experience.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 年纪

您 年纪 大了,别太操劳。

Nín niánjì dà le, bié tài cāoláo.

You are getting on in years; don't work yourself too hard.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 操劳

年纪 大了,记性就差了。

Niánjì dà le, jìxing jiù chà le.

As one gets older the memory gets worse.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 记性

他 年纪 轻轻就当上了将军。

Tā niánjì qīngqīng jiù dāng shàng le jiāngjūn.

He became a general while still young.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 将军

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How is 年纪 used in a sentence?

This page shows 5 sentences using 年纪 (niánjì, "Age"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 年纪 an HSK word?

Yes — 年纪 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.

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