"Mary is sixteen years old."

Translation: Maria are șaisprezece ani.

[PetraEnescu]

"Mary" is a name. Names are not translatable. Maria is the Romanian version, but still a name stays a personal name.

[David-Herron]

pietre - petru - peter - each are the same name translated to different languages.

The same with others like ion/john, or ioana/joanna, etc

[nforjan]

Would it be șaisprezece ani or șaisprezece de ani?

[vincemat]

Saisprezece ani. "de" is only used after numbers 20 or higher :)

[oleoneto]

It had me use the former.

[EB4Ro]

Since when does "are" mean "is" and not "has"? I haven't learned this; is it in another lesson?

[JkumC5vF]

Latin people "have" years, English are just old... Don't try to translate word by word, you are learning another language.

[Chrys866140]

cough Maria cough