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- "そぼは百一さいです。"
"そぼは百一さいです。"
Translation:My grandmother is 101 years old.
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According to the website that I checked, it should be issai.
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/complete/basic_numbers
Irregular readings
一歳 【いっ・さい】 – 1 year old
八歳 【はっ・さい】 – 8 years old
十歳 【じゅっ・さい】 – 10 years old
二十歳 【はたち】 – 20 years old
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You would only ever use そぼ for your own grandmother, but おばあさん you would use to refer to everyone else's grandmother (or your own if you were being strategically polite ; ) ). おばあさん and おじいさん are also commonly used to address elderly men and women who you might not know at all.
Is it? I kept saying this sentence to myself without "and", and it seems that I keep putting in a "en" sound really fast between "hundred" and "one", almost meshed in after the last d in "hundred". I assume that the "en" sound that I keep putting in would be some form of degenerate "and". If I slow down and pronounce each word clearly in "hundred one" in this sentence on grandma's age, it feels way weird... but if I was to say "A hundred one years ago...", that seems fine off of my tongue. But whether that is just a Washington thing or not, I don't know.
tl;dr I think "and" of some form is needed if we are talking about the age of something, but is not needed in any other case (like calander year or the like)... but I don't really know, just a guess
I suppose I should clarify that I meant "a person" when I typed "something" in the last part.
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I think some dialects of English do drop the 'and', but it sounds wrong without it to me (as a native speaker - and one who's had both left- and right-pondian upbringing)
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Plenty of languages have 'and' in their numbers. English - one hundred and one. Spanish - diez Y seis. Maori - tekau MA waru. Not all languages translate that 'and' but that doesn't mean that it isn't necessary or that it's optional. Here we are translating Japanese to English and English includes that 'and'. It is necessary.
I would myself write 101 with the and. but not being an English native speaker, I looked on numerous websites about writing number rules. it seems that most of people writing without and are likely Americans.
When writing out a number of three or more digits, the word and is not necessary. However, use the word and to express any decimal points that may accompany these numbers. (grammarbook.com)
I'm just saying that writing with or without and can be both accepted, depending on where you live.
N.B. sixteen in Spanish is dieciséis, not diez y seis.
That depends if its English English or American English we're learning here. In American its 100% acceptable to leave out the "and". Much like it is when they say "I'm going to write you" instead of "... write to you". Or "I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less". They're not wrong, it's just American variations of English.
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RobbPorter, but "I could care less" and "I couldn't care less" are not variations of the same phrase - they're saying completely different things.
No, it isn't. In fact, some people are taught it's incorrect (it isn't; people use it all the time and it's understood).
The way I learned it in my math classes is that "and" should only be used to indicate a decimal when saying a number, so the "and" isn't only unnecessary, but it would also change the number being said from 101 to 100.1
It's a pondian difference. In "math" class you learn as Kristina did, in "Maths", you learn as we did, to include the "and" after hundreds.
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Is anyone thinking what I'm thinking? I know that using 101 as the age for this exercise might be pure coincidence, but it is true that Japanese people do live for a very long time. Connecting things together while learning something new is fun, ね? :D
in the translation above is does not say "is A hundred and one" it just says "is one hundred one" My answer was "is one hundred and one" Duo marked it wrong because I didn't say, "A"
