This paper presents an attempt to study uses of size adjectives in English, German and Russian in their relationship to the communicative intentions of the speaker. The paper starts with a list of size adjectives to be studied and problems with their descriptions in existing studies. Then, I will present the systemic network for describing the uses of the size adjectives in texts and the trinocular view on the lexical network: ‘from around’, ‘from above’ and ‘from below’. Finally, I will discuss types of translation equivalence and differences between translations, when uses are described by means of the lexical network.