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sdpegasus

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What is the difference between these two sentences?

I turned a year older.

I got a year older.
 

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Both are understandable but neither is perfectly natural. Turned is normally used with a numeral, e.g. "He turned 21 yesterday."
 
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You can turn 30 overnight. You can't get a year older overnight.
 

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That means "turn" is supposed to be used with numbers viz-he turned 21 yesterday,and "get"-he got a year older.
 

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That means "turn" is supposed to be used with numbers viz-he turned 21 yesterday,and "get"-he got a year older.

Yes. "Turn" is used with a number.
 

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If they both are not natural, Please provide an example which is natural.
 

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I have to disagree with some of my colleagues. At least in AmE, "turn/turned a year older" is not uncommon. In a Google search, "turned a year older" resulted in 357,000 hits and "turn a year older" resulted in 254,000 hits.
 
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