¡Hola amigos de Steemit!
Another basics blog today - the colours! Learn these and your friends will be verde with envy!
rojo - red
naranja - orange (the same word is used for the fruit!)
azul (marino) - (navy) blue
amarillo - yellow
rosa - pink
morado - purple
violeta - violet
gris - grey
marrón, castaño - brown
café - dark brown
negro - black
blanco - white
plata - silver
dorado - golden
El pastel es rosa. - The cake is pink.
Tengo dos vestidos rojos. - I have two red dresses.
Dark and light
To say "light [colour]", use colour + claro (remember: most adjectives come after the noun). For example: verde + claro = verde claro = light green.
To say "dark [colour]", use colour + oscuro. For example: rojo + oscuro = rojo oscuro = dark red.
Endings
Just like most other adjectives, the colours change form depending on whether the noun is masculine, feminine, singular or plural. However, we'll look at this in greater detail in a later episode (I'll leave a link here after it's posted). For now, I suggest you concentrate on learning the masculine, singular forms, which are listed above.
I know a lot of you will already have studied the colours, but hopefully this has refreshed your memory and maybe even added a few new words to your vocabulary. We've got another episode of Extra Spanish coming up, so if anyone has any topics unrelated to grammar that they'd like to read about, please go ahead and comment them below :)
- The Loopy Linguist