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Describing-people in Russian

What People Look Like

Finding a friend in a crowd, describing a colleague, praising a grandmother's eyes — all of it runs on patterns you own: у + genitive, adjective agreement, and one clever use of в.

The Having Trick Again

Appearance uses your oldest pattern — features are things people have:

The Measurements

Он высокий и молодой.

He is tall and young.

Note: Two adjectives and you've painted the portrait.

What They're Wearing

в + prepositional does clothes:

Character

Common Mistakes

  • Волосы in the singular. Hair is always plural: длинные волосы.
  • носит everything. You can say она носит очки, but Russians usually just say она в очках.
  • Appearance with «есть». У неё есть длинные волосы sounds odd — for features, drop есть: у неё длинные волосы.

What You Can Do Now

You can describe anyone — looks, clothes, character — and understand descriptions well enough to find the right person at a crowded metro exit.