translate these words in romaji

[oemlegoem]

I am a beginner in Japanese. How to translate this in romaji:
old samurai

Is it furui samurai? oji samurai? Or something else?

 

[Toritoribe]

"oita", "toshi oita" or "toshiyori no", etc + samurai

 

[Mike Cash]

"oita", "toshi oita" or "toshiyori no", etc + samurai

Or "mukashi no samurai" is possible. "Old samurai" isn't clear English.

 

[Toritoribe]

Ah, right. The OP needs to make the meaning clearer.

 

[oemlegoem]

I suppose OP means Original Post. Then that is me. English is not my mother language.
Old samurai: why is that not clear? What different meanings can it have?
I meant to ask "an old samurai" . Like "an old man" or "an old woman".

 

[Toritoribe]

"Old samurai" can also refer to "old type samurai" or "samurai of the past", as Mike-san pointed out. If you mean "aged sumurai", take my ones. (There are more alternatives such like "rōrei no", "kōrei no", "rōnen no", "rōjin no", etc., etc.)

 

[Mike Cash]

I suppose OP means Original Post. Then that is me. English is not my mother language.
Old samurai: why is that not clear? What different meanings can it have?
I meant to ask "an old samurai" . Like "an old man" or "an old woman".

It isn't a problem with your English. The problem comes from the loose way English is used sometimes. For example, I could say "The old samurai trained with their swords ten hours a day" and it would be clear from the context that I meant "samurai in days of long ago" and not "samurai with gray beards and canes".

 

[OoTmaster]

Mike makes a good point. Just to point out if he were to say "The old samurai trains with his sword ten hours a day" context would imply it is one aged male samurai. English tends to be ambiguous sometimes unless used in context.