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Countable, uncountable: advice, bread, cabbage, hair, onions
Bread and hair can be either depending on context. They are often uncountable, but the different breads in the specialist shop are countable and the hairs the cat leaves on the furniture are grammatically countable even though you could never actually count them. Now that seemed easy.
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a shock of hair | WordReference Forums
a lock of hair might measure several cm. in width, it's often cut to serve as a memento of the person a shock of hair is thicker in width; apart from the context you gave, the word is also used (somewhat literarily) to describe, for example, clumps of hair that fall forward into the face or cover the eyes, because the person is expending physical effort and the combed style comes out of place
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Make or do someone's hairstyle | WordReference Forums
But your hair already exists. The stylist is not making hair. The verb"do" usually means perform an action. But a hairstyle is not an action. So these verbs do not work well. The most common expression is"to style your hair". So the verb is"style", and the person who does it to your"hair" is called a"stylist" (a person who styles).
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pelo largo, rizado, rubio (orden de adjetivos)
Is there any particular order in Spanish for adjectives describing “el pelo”, like we have in English? He has long, curly blond hair and blue eyes: · Tiene el pelo largo, rizado, y rubio y los ojos azules. · Tiene el pelo rizado, largo, y rubio y los ojos azules. ·...
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hair cut vs haircut | WordReference Forums
Maybe if you changed sentence A. to read: 'I will get a haircut today', it would be fine, I think. If you had been talking about a specific haircut before, then perhaps saying 'my haircut' is okay.
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Not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin - WordReference Forums
The hair on one's chin is one's beard. In folklore, the beard was always considered special, or magical, or sacred, and taking an oath by one's beard was a standard practice.
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long blond straight hair (sequence of adjectives)
Which is right to say"She has long blond straight hair." or"She has long straight blond hair? Thank you.
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My hair is or are long? - WordReference Forums
Hair can be singular (one hair), non-count singular (meaning an entire growth of hairs, such as on the head: hair) or plural (three hairs). Whenever the form is singular ("hair") the singular form of the verb is used; when it is plural ("hairs"), the plural verb form is used:"Natasha's hair is long.""There are hairs on your coat."
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have got / have long hair - WordReference Forums
Hello, I dont know if this is the correct place to ask about my doubt because is my first question: To say"I have got long hair and brown eyes" is the same as" I have long hair and brown eyes" ?
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I've got straight, long, brown hair: adjective order
Saying,"long brown straight" sounds like you're saying the same thing twice, in a way, when you separate them like that. To me, they are more natural together."Long straight brown hair. Brown has nothing to do with long or straight and is awkward between them. Short curly blonde hair. Short blonde curly hair.
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