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Intermediate Italian: describing people
Intermediate Italian: describing people

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Describing physical characteristics

In this activity you will work on the vocabulary and structures you will need for describing people, and practise the vocabulary you have just learned.

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Box 1 Describing physical characteristics

To describe someone’s physical characteristics, you generally use the verb essere with an appropriate adjective (or adjectives).

Marco è calvo.

Marco is bald.

Giovanni è grosso.

Giovanni is big.

Teresa è magra.

Teresa is slim.

Sara è attraente e sportiva.

Sara is attractive and sporty.

To describe someone’s physical characteristics you can also use avere followed by a noun.

Dario ha la barba e i baffi.

Dario has a beard and a moustache.

Stefania ha gli occhi castani.

Stefania has brown eyes.

Finally, to describe what someone is wearing, use portare followed by a noun.

Renzo porta spesso una giacca verde.

Renzo often wears a green jacket.

Dario porta gli occhiali.

Dario wears glasses.

Sofia porta sempre i capelli raccolti.

Sofia always has her hair tied back.