The Japanese word for old is
古い
ふるい - furui
Japanese Definition
| old | |
| 1. 形容詞. 年をとった。 | |
| 2. 形容詞. ～歳の。 | |
| 3. 形容詞. 年上の。 | |
| 4. 形容詞. ふるい。 | |
| 5. 形容詞. 旧式の。 | |
| 6. 形容詞. 昔の。 | |
| 7. 形容詞. 元の。 | |
| 8. 形容詞. 親愛なる。 |
Translations for old and their definitions
| 古い | |
| 1. adj. (from 759) (not of a person) old, aged, antiquated | |
| 私は以前古いロールスロイスを持っていた。 - I used to own an old Rolls-Royce. | |
| 私は古いランプを買った。 - I bought an old lamp. |
| 歳 | |
| 1. Usage: Often abbreviated to much simpler 才, for example in 何才, or , as opposed to 何歳, . The phrase "twenty years old" (二十歳) uses jukujikun reading and pronoun | |
| 2. suffix. (from early 800s) -year-old | |
| 十四 歳 - fourteen years old |
| 才 | |
| 1. n. ability, talent, aptitude | |
| 2. n. alternative form of the volumetric unit |
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