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How do I know whether to use лет or год when expressing age? I remember back in my Russian class being very confused about that. :/
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один год
два года | три года | четыре года
пять лет | семь лет | восемь лет | девять лет | десять лет | одиннадцать лет | ....
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двадцать один год
двадцать два года | ....
двадцать пять лет | ...
Do you see the pattern?
Ohhh okay, I think I get it.
один год - nominative masc. singular
два/три/четыре года - genitive masc. singular
But what's the deal with лет? Does it ever decline? Or is it already in nominative/genitive plural?
Лет is the genitive plural of "summer," so you could be 33 summers old :) I don't know why лет is used for years, though
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Wow, yup, "лет" is the "genitive plural" of "лето". But, at the same time "лет" is also the "genitive plural" of "год". Not native though, but I think that's why it's used to express one's age . xD
But, It seems people learn it differently though. Here > "summer" explanation
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I still don't understand, can someone explain it more simply?
So why don't they explain this in the T&N? I saw that for some reason 2, 3 and 4 (and higher numbers ending with these) are "special" somehow but there's no mention of using год instead of лет.
