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0Typically we don't place an S on the end of elder and senior. 02br
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00"They are five years my elder."02br
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00"They are five years my senior."02br
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00I can only guess that ELDER and SENIOR here are adjectives instead of nouns. 02br
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00"They are five years my elder sisters."02br
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0 01font00I would write it this way;02br
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00 My sister is two years younger than me.02br
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00 They are five years my elder. (but it still sounds awkward)02br
00 They are five years my senior.02br
00 How about this;02br
00 They are five years senior to me.02br
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0 01font00"They are five years my elder sisters."02br
00 That is not a well written sentence.02br
00 The next sentence is good if you want to use the word 'elder'.02font02br
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0Hi guys,02br
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01font00"My sister is two years my younger."02br
00"They are five years my elders."02br
00"They are five years my seniors."02br
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00Do these expressions sound natural to you?00 I'd like to answer Paco in a different way by noting that in my experience these expressions are not very

0 Hello guys02br
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00Thank you for your kind replies. Frankly speaking, I came to know this sort of collocations quite recently when Eladio asked something about a sentence "He is two years my senior", and since then I have thought about how we should analyze them grammatically. First I thought your folks use "my senior" in a sense of an adjectival phrase as you use "my ag

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00I would like to qualify Mr. Clive's remark a little bit by saying that the expressions like "01u00My sister is two years my younger.02u00" and "01u00They are five years my senior02u00." are expressions you do hear sometimes and not rarely. I don't know about the expression "They are five years my elder." - this one

0Hi,02br
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00Interesting comment. I think I see from your post that you are in Korea? My understanding, based on what Korean students have told me, is that Koreans place much more social significance on these matters of relative age than I would say we do in North America. In fact, I was told that when two Koreans meet, they establish who is the senior and who the junior.

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01cite10Paco200412cite10"My sister is two years my younger."12br
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10This one is a little odd sounding. Note that most people would SAY "My sister is two years younger than me," but grammatically, it should be "younger than I." (Younger than I 11i10am12i10.) 11blockquote

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0 Hello GG02br
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00I feel the English expression "superior to me" comes from a Latin phrase "me superiorem (elder than me)" where "me" is the ablative case of the pronoun for the first person singular but incidentally the same in form as the accusative "me". On the other hand "my superior" might have its root in the translation of the Greek expression "mou presbyterion (e