Meine Shirtgröße ist Medium.

English Translation

My shirt size is medium.

Meine Hemdgröße ist mittel or
Meine Shirtgröße ist Medium. What do they say in Germany?

Clothing sizes are usually regarded as proper names:
S = small
L = large
XL = extra large
etc.

But very often the sizes are just given by their spelling. So for size “M”, people would say “emm”, XL is pronounced “icks ell”, etc. I have never heard someone say “mittel”, and only rarely “Medium”.

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This is one of the many occasions where Germans don’t translate the English word to German.

Like @pitti42 said, we say one of these:

  • Meine T-Shirtgröße ist M.
  • Ich habe/trage Größe M.

We alternatively say “Small/Medium/Large” but we seldom say “Klein/Mittel/Groß”.

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Interesting and relevant comments but not what I wanted to clarify. Is “shirt” and “medium” more commonly usede rather than “Hemd” and “Mittel”?

Regarding “Mittel” or “Medium”: As @pitti42 and I both already said, yes, “Medium” is more commonly used than “Mittel”.

With “Shirt”, it depends.

  • If you mean a shirt (the one with buttons), then we say “Hemd”.
  • If you mean a T-shirt (no buttons), we don’t translate that into German. We say “T-Shirt”.
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Happy to clarify. In the UK if you refer to a “shirt” it will be understood it is a tailored shirt that you would normally weat with perhaps a business suit and perhaps a tie, It may have long or short sleeves. A T-shirt, no buttons and short sleeves, strictly casual wear. Then you have a “polo shirt” which could be loosely described as a T-shirt wuth a collar and and 2/3 buttons.Perhpas in Germany the German language zealots might like to refer it as "Polo-hemd?

Left the English word, right how Germans refer to it:

  • shirt ↔ Hemd
  • T-shirt ↔ T-Shirt
  • polo shirt ↔ Polohemd
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