año
Aragonese
Etymology
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Noun
año m (plural años)
References
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “año”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Galician
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
año m (plural años, feminine aña, feminine plural añas)
Nauruan
Numeral
año
Spanish
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Etymology
From Old Spanish anno, from Latin annus (“a year”), from Proto-Italic *atnos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂et-no-, probably from *h₂et- (“to go”).
Pronunciation
Noun
año m (plural años)
- year
- (a certain) age
- Tengo veinte años. ― I'm twenty [years old].
- Depende de los años que tenga. ― It depends how old it is.
Usage notes
- To talk about someone's age, in Spanish the construction is "tener X años" (literally, have X years). So, "I'm 18 (years old)" would be "tengo 18 años". Similarly, "how are old are you?" would be "¿cuántos años tienes?" (literally, "how many years do you have?")
- Do not confuse with ano (“anus”).
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Further reading
- “año”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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