In English a teenager is from Thirteen to nineteen.
Someone who is 10,11,12 or 20 is not a teenager.
In Japanese ハイティーン is ok but it is not English.
Someone who is about 30-33 is in their early thirties.
Someone who is about 34-36 is in in their mid thirties.
Someone who is about 37-39 is in their late thirties.
× She is a high teen.
○ My daughter is 14, she is in her early teens.
○ My son is 19 he is in his late teens.
○ My grandfather started smoking in his teens. (= When he was a teenager.)
○ Many people in their nineties remember the Second World War.
○ I had my first child in my thirties.
○ = I had my first child when I was in my thirties.
× She is Ara-fo.
○ She is about 40 (years old.)
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