How to say a compliment in Russian about age and not offend
It is usually nice to hear compliments about your age and appearance. You can tell when you know the person age you are talking to:
Вы выглядите моложе своих лет! / You look young for your age!
Sometimes we know a person’s age only approximately. Sometimes it is necessary to clarify exactly when the person was that age. There are many different phrases for talking about age.
Ему около тридцати. / He is about thirty.
Эта женщина очень молодая, ей еще нет и двадцати. / This woman is very young, she is not even twenty.
Вчера Петру исполнилось сорок три года. / Yesterday Peter was 43 years old.
Послезавтра моей маме исполняется пятьдесят пять лет. / Tomorrow my mother will be 55 years.
Мне пошел пятнадцатый год. / I’m in my 15th year.
Мне чуть больше сорока. / I’m in my early forties.
Мне столько, на сколько я выгляжу. / I am as old as I look.
Useful vocabulary on the age subject
- возраст — age;
- молодой — young;
- пожилой — aged;
- детство — childhood;
- юность — adolescence
- молодость — youth;
- старость — old age;
- совершеннолетний — full-aged;
- подросток — teenager;
- новорождённый — newborn.
Она такая молодая, ей нет и двадцати, кажется, а у нее уже новорождённый. / She is so young, she is not even twenty, it seems, and she already has a newborn.
Какой возраст самый лучший? / What is the best age?
Now you can easily hold an age conversation in Russian, find out how old your conversation partner is and talk about yourself.