Asking about Age in German

Now we are all familiar with the word “alt” , which means old . And in English , to find out somebody’s age we ask “How old are you?” . For asking about age in German , it is exactly the same . And you were taught , in latter lessons about verbs and questions . You might think it would be something like “Wie alt du?” or “Wie bist du alt?”. That would be incorrect because the first question doesn’t have a verb , and the second one is incorrect because when asking a question it is okay to have an adjective after the verb or interrogative adverb . This all might sound confusing, but it’s really not .

Now to ask the question with 1st person it is :

And response you might get is :

And now the plural version of the 1st person :

The responses  you will get about Age in German are :

To ask this important question in the 2nd person : First , we will learn the biggest question here , “How old are you?” which is : 

And there is only one response to this , it is :

For the equally important plural 2nd person :

Which the response is :

And the formal question , for both singular and plural is :

You should all ready get the pattern for this , but we are going to keep on doing this doing this list , if you aren’t sure of something or you are confused . So for the 3rd person :

The responses to this are :

And now the plural 3rd person of question and response :

And of course the response is :

Now with some people you might be able to guess their age,  and you could ask them directly about it . This is usually pretty of rude , but it illustrates nicely how the phrase has to be changed if you ask a yes- no-question , so let’s get started , anyway !

Note the inversed order between “Wie alt bist du?” and “Bist du __ Jahre alt?” . This is exactly the same as in English !

Possessives

Note: ‘Euer’ is irregular . When ‘euer’ has to have a different ending the e before r is dropped , so it turns into ‘eur-‘ .