Practice Giving Your Age

Learn a fast pattern for giving your age in Italian!

Lesson Transcript

Hi, everyone.

In this lesson, you'll practice giving your age.

You'll be challenged to ask and answer questions about age.

First, let's look at some examples.

Quanti anni hai, Lucia?

Ho venticinque anni.

E tu?

Ho quarantacinque anni.

To ask someone's age, say...

Quanti anni hai?

To answer, use...

Ho...

Followed by the number and...

anni.

Like...

Ho venticinque anni.

Listen to a few more examples.

Quanti anni hai?

Ho ventiquattro anni.

Quanti anni hai?

Ho venticinque anni.

Let's practice.

You meet Tom.

Ask him how old he is.

Ho ventiquattro anni.

Now, meet Emily.

Ask her how old she is.

Ho venticinque anni.

How did you do?

You can consider this practice exercise successful if you were

able to answer in the given time and use the sentence pattern

featured in the examples.

Try this practice exercise again if you want to improve your fluency.

To learn more vocabulary and phrases,

access our Can-Do video series by clicking the link in the description.

And that's it for this lesson.

Great job.

Now you know how to give your age.

Go ahead and move on to the next lesson.

I'll see you there.

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