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Spanish Vocabulary List: Colors

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OBJECTIVE: Describe everything, but remembering that you have to describe it as a "boy" or a "girl" and not think about any kind of "it."
TASK: Pick any form (masc., fem., sing., pl.) and use it for a single something or somebody or for a buncha somethings or a buncha somebodies.
PERPLEXED?
You're thinking about "IT" again !!!
¿Qué color tiene ?
When you're describing things in Spanish, the color comes after what it's describing.
And you have to be consistent with using the right form of the adjective according to the noun.
If what you're describing is masculine, the adjective has to be masculine.
If what you're describing is feminine, the adjective has to be feminine.


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All Spanish nouns are either masculine or feminine. There is no neuter gender anywhere in the language. When you are describing anything by color, you have to use a corresponding adjective - if the noun is masculine, the adjective of color has to be masculine. If the noun is feminine, the adjective of color has to be feminine. And you have to keep up with singular and plural, too.

It sounds like a lot to remember, but with practice it gets easier and easier.

The four columns below provide the masculine singular form, the feminine singular form, the masculine plural (or mixed gender grouping) form, and the plural feminine form. Note that some colors have only one form for both masculine and feminine singular.

The masculine plural form is always used with "groups" of mixed gender objects - regardless of if there is only one masculine object and any quantity of feminine objects in the group.


 

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SINGULAR
PLURAL

or
amarillo
amarilla
amarillos
amarillas
anaranjado
anaranjada
anaranjados
anaranjadas
azul
azules
beige
beiges
blanco
blanca
blancos
blancas
café
café
carmesí
carmesís
colorado
colorada
colorados
coloradas
gris
grises
lila
lilas
marrón
marrones
morado
morada
morados
moradas
naranjo
naranja
naranjos
naranjas
negro
negra
negros
negras
pardo
parda
pardos
pardas
prieto
prieta
prietos
prietas
purpúreo
purpúrea
purpúreos
purpúreas
rojo
roja
rojos
rojas
rosado
rosada
rosados
rosadas
verde
verdes
 

It really helps to have kids' vocabulary books or flash cards lying around to help you memorize vocabulary. There are excellent color picture dictionaries at reasonable prices at amazon.com. Have you ordered yourself a kid's color book yet?