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25 Mar 2015
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What is the difference between にじゅう and はたち ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between にじゅう and はたち ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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- English (US)
One is the number 20 (にじゅう) the other is used specifically for age (はたち).
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- English (US)
Not really. Becoming 20 is a big deal, so it gets its own special wording.
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- English (US)
I can't answer that with confidence, but I don't think so. If there are, I can't remember them at the moment (;_;)
- Japanese
"にじゅう(二十)" means the number 20. "はたち" means 20 years old. We also say にじゅっさい・にじっさい（二十歳） to mean 20 years old.Both are correct and are used often. Perhaps, はたち is an older word than にじゅっさい. In some specific context of celebrating longevity, we use かんれき（還暦）for ろくじゅっさい/ろくじっさい(六十歳) as in かんれきのお祝い, meaning 60-year-old celebration. Some more similar words for age, used for celebration are こき(古希) for 70 years old, きじゅ(喜寿) for 77, さんじゅ(傘寿), べいじゅ(米寿) for 88, そつじゅ(卒寿) for 90 andはくじゅ（白寿） for 99.
Hope this helps.^^
- Japanese
I'd say we use にじゅっさい/にじっさい more often. はたち has a sort of positive connotation of celebrating the age, so we won't use it to talk about the age of a criminal being 20.
× 犯人ははたちです。
○犯人は２０歳（にじゅっさい・にじっさい）です。
Just my two cents. ^^
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