age in months

[breegeek]

Ok, after 6 years of learning japanese and thinking myself near fluency, I realized I do not know how to say "3 months old"...


I havent thought of this before. Is it getsu-sai? gess-sai?

It's amazing that I can't find this out....

[clay]

３ヶ月
san ka getsu

赤ん坊は３ヶ月です。

You don't need the -sai for babies since they aren't a year yet.

[two_heads_talking]

clay beat me to it.. and he is of course correct.

[clay]

Woohoo! I guess I am １０歳, I mean 天才.

[two_heads_talking]

oh brother... (slaps forehead)

[AJBryant]

Of course, traditionally, you don't bother with "months." The kid's a year old at birth. The next new year he gets a year older. (Which is how Tokugawa Ieyasu, born on xii/26, was one of the most "underdeveloped" 2 year-olds in Japan the next week.)


Tony

[clay]

That is interesting.

But now baby materials are labeled for ０歳〜３歳 and such. I thought that was interesting since I have never seen a toy labeled 'from age 0 to 3' in English.

[Dehitay]

what would the Japanese phrase for "for 3 years and younger" be anways?

[Oyaji]

Dehitay wrote:
what would the Japanese phrase for "for 3 years and younger" be anways?

３才以下

４才未満 would also mean basically the same thing.

[Oracle]

It's also quite common to add 生後　（せいご "since birth") as well when talking about very small babies eg. 生後3ヶ月

[Mike Cash]

AJBryant wrote:
Of course, traditionally, you don't bother with "months." The kid's a year old at birth. The next new year he gets a year older. (Which is how Tokugawa Ieyasu, born on xii/26, was one of the most "underdeveloped" 2 year-olds in Japan the next week.)

Go ahead and give the natural extension of the story by explaining why Japanese women require 10 months to have babies instead of 9 months.

[paul_b]

Oracle wrote:
It's also quite common to add 生後　（せいご "since birth") as well when talking about very small babies eg. 生後3ヶ月

There's a (slightly) amusing story about 生後. Try looking it up in WWWJDIC (P.S. Yes, I have submitted an amendment for that entry).