How Old Are You?

To ask someone how old they are in Spanish, you say ¿cuántos años tienes? It sounds like KWAHN-tohs AH-nyohs tee-EH-nehs. Cuántos means how many, años means years, and tienes means you have. So it literally means how many years do you have? In Spanish, you do not say I am 7 years old — you say I have 7 years!