How heavy (tall) are you? (2025)

I have some doubts about the answers. I know that the questions would be...

How heavy are you?

Please someone could tell me which one is the correct one.

1.- I am 60 kg heavy
2.- I weigh 60 kg

... and about the question...

How tall are you?

1.- I am 1,60 m tall ( one metre sixty centimetres/one sixty centimetres???????)

e_aguera said:

I have some doubts about the answers. I know that the questions would be...

How heavy are you?

Please someone could tell me which one is the correct one.

1.- I am 60 kg heavy
2.- I weigh 60 kg

... and about the question...

How tall are you?

1.- I am 1,60 m tall ( one metre sixty centimetres/one sixty centimetres???????)

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The first question would be: How much do you weigh?

The answers: I weigh 60 kg. I am 1 meter 60 centimeters tall.

In my opinion, although English is not my mother tongue, it would be:

-How heavy are you? / How much do you weigh? (sounds better to me)
- I'm 60 kg / I weigh 60 kg

-How tall are you?
- I'm 1,60 m (one metre and sixty centimetres)

Hope it helps!

e_aguera said:

Thanks a lot to you both

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No le preguntes a nadie, "How heavy are you?" a menos que sea en un contexto muy familiar o, posiblemente, jocoso o cómico. En la gran mayoría de los casos sería un insulto.

e_aguera said:

Pues fíjate que así es como me lo enseñaron en la escuela. MAdre mía las escuelas de España, jejeje. Gracias anyway

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Es posible que diga así en otras regiones angloparlantes, pero en EE UU sería un insulto si no se dijera en un context especial.

capitas said:

I don't agree.
I could perfectly answer I'M VERY, VERY VERY HEAVY.
Two meters tall and two TONS heavy.

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You might answer that way, but the question "How much do you weigh" is a much better way to elicit the response. How heavy are you? could imply: "I see that you're quite heavy. Just how heavy are you?"

I repeat: How heavy are you? may be quite acceptable in some regions of the English-speaking world, which is, after all, very large. But I maintain that the question would sound very strange here in Yanquilandia.

un saludo

capitas said:

Yankee donbill don't be worked up. SORRY.
I agree with you.
You say How heavy you are? when you mean that the person in front is VERY VERY HEAVY. I agree tha it is not ACCEPTABLE

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I'm not worked up at all! Just remember that I believe in description and not prescription when it comes to matters linguistic. And furthermore, I'm not a Yankee! I'm a Southerner! Now I really could get worked up if you call me Yankee Bill again!

(I have so much fun reading and responding to posts that I sometimes can't control my enthusiasm!)

Un saludo sureño

donbill said:

No le preguntes a nadie, "How heavy are you?" a menos que sea en un contexto muy familiar o, posiblemente, jocoso o cómico. En la gran mayoría de los casos sería un insulto.

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Estoy muy de acuerdo.

donbill said:

No le preguntes a nadie, "How heavy are you?" a menos que sea en un contexto muy familiar o, posiblemente, jocoso o cómico. En la gran mayoría de los casos sería un insulto.

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Este comentario describe la situación en Inglaterra también.

Aquí se puede decir "How much do you weigh?" o "What do you weigh?"