How tall is 1.80 meters

Edinburgher Senior Member Scotland. S1m0n said:. Click to expand Linkway said:. I'm cm tall. Dymn said:. I'd say I'm one metre eighty or I'm one eighty, just like Ed's German-speaker. Loob said:. I'd say I'm one metre eighty or I'm one eighty. Just as one says 'I'm five feet four' or 'I'm five four' in the US.

Gergedan Cemil Senior Member Turkish. Is it also idiomatic to say "I stand five feet four. DonnyB - moderator].

Last edited by a moderator: Sep 21, Gergedan Cemil said:. Thank you, london calling! Roxxxannne said:. I might use it facetiously, but only in reference to myself: "Hey, are you calling me petite?

I stand a full five feet four! Thanks for the response, roxxxannne. If one said, "I'm five feet four inches. And would it be used by native speakers? The blue one is self-made. Is the blue one also OK? Thank you. English - South-East England. I'm one eighty. I agree with UJ. The difference between 1. With 1. In that sense, reading 1.

Reading it as "one eighty" or "one metre eighty" also presumes that your listener fully subscribes to the convention that lengths especially in the context of measuring how tall a person is are expressed in metres and centimetres. Thus saying "one eight" or "one metre eight" would be taken to mean 1. Not all cultures that previously used and in some cases still use feet and inches find the centimetre a natural enough unit. In the UK I've often come across millimetres being used where a European would use centimetres and decimals thereof.

For instance, some people might say an inch is Use this page to learn how to convert between metres and feet. Type in your own numbers in the form to convert the units!

You can do the reverse unit conversion from feet to m , or enter any two units below:. The metre, symbol: m, is the basic unit of distance or of "length", in the parlance of the physical sciences in the International System of Units.

The internationally-accepted spelling of the unit in English is "metre", although the American English spelling meter is a common variant. However, both American and non-American forms of English agree that the spelling "meter" should be used as a suffix in the names of measuring devices such as chronometers and micrometers. A foot plural: feet is a non-SI unit of distance or length, measuring around a third of a metre.

There are twelve inches in one foot and three feet in one yard.