How to Say ‘I am 1.70 meters tall.’ in Spain Spanish
Mido un metro setenta.
MEE-doh oon MEH-tro seh-tehn-tah
[MEE-doh oon MEH-tro seh-tehn-tah]
💬 Usage Tip: medir "to measure" swaps its e for an i in most forms: mido, mides, mide. Height is said as metres plus centimetres: un metro ochenta "1.80 m".
Phrase Breakdown
Mido un metro
MEE-doh oon MEH-tro
I am one metre (tall)
'Mido' is 'I measure', from 'medir'. Spaniards say their height this way. The 'd' is soft: 'MI-do un ME-tro'.
Mido un metro ochenta.
I'm one metre eighty (1.80 m) tall.
Words in this phrase
Mido
[MEE-doh]
I measure, I am (tall)
First person of 'medir'; used to say your height.
Mido casi dos metros.
I am almost two metres tall.
un
[oon]
a / one
"Un" is the masculine form of "a" or "one" in Spanish.
Un minuto más, por favor.
One more minute, please.
metro
[MEH-tro]
metro
The underground train system; in Spain, 'metro' usually means subway.
¿Dónde está el metro? Quiero ir al centro.
Where is the metro? I want to go to the city centre.
setenta.
seh-tehn-tah
seventy
This means seventy centimetres. The word 'centímetros' is usually dropped. Stress the middle: 'se-TEN-ta'.
Tengo setenta euros.
I have seventy euros.
Words in this phrase
setenta
[seh-tehn-tah]
Seventy
The number 70, follows sixty-nine and precedes seventy-one.
El anciano tiene "Setenta" años.
The elderly man is "Seventy" years old.
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