How to Say ‘I'm one meter seventy-eight.’ in Spain Spanish
Mido un metro y setenta y ocho.
MEE-doh oon MEH-troh ee seh-TEN-tah ee OH-choh
[MEE-doh oon MEH-troh ee seh-TEN-tah ee OH-choh]
💬 Usage Tip: For height, Spanish commonly gives meters and centimeters as one string: [un metro y setenta y ocho]. You can swap in any number the same way: [un metro y sesenta], [un metro y ochenta y dos].
Phrase Breakdown
Mido
[MEE-doh]
I measure / I am
Used to state your height in Spanish.
Mido un metro y setenta y ocho sin zapatos.
I am one meter seventy-eight tall without shoes.
Un metro y setenta y ocho.
oon MEH-troh ee seh-TEN-tah ee OH-choh
one meter seventy-eight.
Means 1.78 meters tall.
Mido un metro y setenta y ocho.
I’m 1.78 meters tall.
Words in this phrase
un
[oon]
one / a
Used before masculine singular nouns like metro.
Mido un metro exacto.
I am exactly one meter tall.
metro
[MEH-troh]
meter
A standard unit for height and distance.
Un metro equivale a cien centímetros.
One meter equals one hundred centimeters.
y
[ee]
and
Connects the tens and units in Spanish numbers.
Setenta y ocho centímetros más serían demasiado.
Seventy-eight more centimeters would be too much.
setenta
[seh-TEN-tah]
seventy
Number 70, used here in the height expression.
Setenta centímetros no bastan.
Seventy centimeters are not enough.
y
[ee]
and
Connects the tens and units in Spanish numbers.
Setenta y ocho centímetros más serían demasiado.
Seventy-eight more centimeters would be too much.
ocho
[OH-choh]
eight
Number 8, here completing seventy-eight.
Ocho centímetros menos cambiarían mucho.
Eight centimeters less would change a lot.
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