У неё ровный пробор и длинная коса.

У неё is the normal Russian way to say she has in everyday speech.

Literally, У неё means something like at her or by her, but in Russian this structure is used to express possession:

• У неё ровный пробор и длинная коса. = She has a straight parting and a long braid.

Russian usually does not use иметь the way English uses to have in ordinary descriptions.
So while она имеет is grammatically possible in some contexts, it often sounds formal, bookish, or unnatural for simple possession.

A very common pattern is:

• У + person in the genitive + noun
• У меня есть брат. = I have a brother.
• У неё длинная коса. = She has a long braid.

Because after the preposition у, Russian uses the genitive case.

The pronoun changes like this:

• она = she
• её / неё = her in certain oblique-case forms

After у, you need:

• у неё = at her / she has

Compare:

• Она красивая. = She is beautiful.
• У неё длинные волосы. = She has long hair.

A useful thing to remember: the н- appears in forms like неё, него, них after many prepositions:

• у неё
• для него
• без них

Because the adjectives must agree with the nouns they describe in gender, number, and case.

Here both nouns are singular nominative, but they have different genders:

• пробор is masculine
• коса is feminine

So the adjectives change accordingly:

• ровный пробор = masculine singular
• длинная коса = feminine singular

That is why you get:

• -ый in ровный
• -ая in длинная

This is basic adjective agreement in Russian.

Пробор means a hair part or parting — the line where the hair is divided.

So:

• ровный пробор means a straight/neat/even parting

In this sentence, it is clearly about hairstyle and appearance.

Ровный has a broad meaning: even, smooth, straight, level, neat, depending on context.

In the phrase ровный пробор, it means something like:

• straight
• neat
• even

So a natural English translation is a straight parting or a neat part.

It does not necessarily mean geometrically perfect; it just describes the parting as clean and well-formed.

Yes, here коса means braid.

This is a good word to watch out for, because коса can have different meanings depending on context, including:

• braid / plait
• scythe
• sandspit in geographic contexts

But in У неё ровный пробор и длинная коса, the hairstyle context makes braid the only natural meaning.

Russian often leaves out the verb to be in the present tense, and in possession sentences it often uses the у + genitive structure without an explicit verb.

So in this sentence:

• У неё ровный пробор и длинная коса.

there is no written word for is or has, but the meaning is still clear: She has a straight parting and a long braid.

In some sentences, you may see есть, but it is not always necessary.

For example:

• У неё есть брат. = She has a brother.
• У неё длинная коса. = She has a long braid.

With descriptions of what someone possesses physically, Russian often omits есть.

Because пробор refers to one parting line, not to all her hair.

A person normally has:

• one пробор = one hair part
• one коса = one braid, if the hairstyle is described that way

So singular makes perfect sense here:

• ровный пробор = a straight part
• длинная коса = a long braid

If the hairstyle had two braids, Russian would say something different, for example:

• две длинные косы = two long braids

Yes, Russian word order is fairly flexible, though different orders can sound more neutral, more emphatic, or more literary.

The given sentence:

• У неё ровный пробор и длинная коса.

is natural and neutral.

You could also hear:

• Ровный пробор и длинная коса у неё.

This might sound more emphatic or stylistically marked, depending on context.

For a learner, the original order is the safest one to use.

The stress is on the final ё, and ё is always pronounced like yo:

• неё = roughly ni-YO

A few other stresses in the sentence:

• у неё
• рОвный
• пробОр
• длИнная
• косА

Stress matters in Russian, so it is worth learning these with the words.

Not exactly.

• длинные волосы = long hair
• длинная коса = a long braid

A person can have long hair without wearing it in a braid.
So коса describes both the hair length and the way the hair is styled.

In this sentence, the speaker is describing a specific hairstyle: a straight parting and one long braid.