In Japanese, "How old are you?" is 何歳ですか？ (nan sai desu ka ？). It is a phrase.
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何歳ですか？ is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as nan sai desu ka ？, it sounds roughly like "nah-n sah-ee deh-soo kah ？" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steam何歳ですか？ is romanised as nan sai desu ka ？. Say it roughly like "nah-n sah-ee deh-soo kah ？" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
何歳ですか？ is a neutral, everyday word that works in both casual and polite speech. The level of formality comes from the sentence structure around it, not from the word itself.
何歳ですか？ is written using kanji and hiragana. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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