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by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 724 days ago
Maybe they meant 5.5 years old

I see a lot of European languages will say "I have X years" where English says "I am X years old". French at least

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Specifying the unit for human age feels a bit formal in German. The unitless number is colloquially used like an adjective: "I am X".
Thanks, that makes a lot of sense in context.