"Ему одиннадцать лет."

Translation: He is eleven years old.

[Polyglottal_stop]

Lol I keep translating this in my head as eleventeen :P :)

[amins2s]

Make that One above (над) Ten, and you'll get back on track.

[kpagcha]

I just completed a sentece that used его instead of ему for ages. Why?

[Polyglottal_stop]

Ages use the dative case emy. Eго would be accusative or genetive

[jvdn.aze]

can we drop лет in this sentence? or is it mandatory?

[Neon_Iceberg]

You can. "Ему одиннадцать" means the same. But when one writes documents it is better not to omit the word "лет".

[Jellei]

I was so quick with answering that I wrote "He's 18" and it was accepted as 'almost correct'...

[websmasha]

Why not Он?

[Craig231800]

Because Russian uses the Dative Case to express age - I guess you receive the numbers of years, you are the recipient of the years

[websmasha]

+Vlad we won't use it in documents, anyway. P.S if you're wondering why I didn't reply it's because an error occurs whenever I try to

[Modar216222]

I said it correctly why wouldn't it take it ?

[Rowdy_Wolf]

Я сказал: ему 11 лет and it was incorrect