Colours are adjectives, similar to the adjectives we learned in our previous lesson. Adjectives (e.g. size, shape, age, colour, origin, material) are words which add description to nouns (things). We discussed adjectives in detail in our previous lesson 16. If you haven’t already seen that lesson, we recommend that you review it.<\/p>\n
The Colours in Spanish:<\/h4>\n
Amarillo: yellow
\nAzul: blue
\nBlanco: white
\nGris: grey
\nMarr\u00f3n: brown
\nMorado: purple
\nNaranja: orange
\nNegro: black
\nRojo: red
\nRosa: pink
\nVerde: green<\/p>\n
Some colours are slightly different when referring to hair:<\/strong><\/p>\n Casta\u00f1o: Brown We looked at the vocabulary of the body in the previous lesson. So, once again, please review that lesson if you are unfamiliar with this vocabulary. Remember that in Spanish adjectives come after the noun when in English they come before the noun.<\/p>\n Tienes los ojos muy azules: You have very blue eyes In our Spanish Lesson 15 we learned about Spanish Possessive Adjectives<\/a> (Mi\/s: My, Tu\/s: Your, Su\/s: His\/Her\/Its, Nuestro\/a\/s: Our, Vuestro\/a\/s: Your, Su\/s: Their) and in our Spanish Lesson 14 we learned about The Family in Spanish<\/a>. Let’s practice using this information again now with The Colours in Spanish<\/strong> and parts of the body…<\/p>\n \u00bfTu padre tiene el pelo corto y casta\u00f1o?: Does your father have short brown hair? \u00bfVuestra t\u00eda tiene los ojos verdes? Does your aunt have green eyes? \u00bfTus abuelos tienen los dientes blancos?: Do your grandparents have white teeth? One last useful point about colours is how to describe shades of colours in Spanish using Oscuro<\/em> and Claro<\/em>. If you wish to say, for example, Dark blue<\/em> it is Azul oscuro<\/em> and Light green<\/em> is Verde claro<\/em>.<\/p>\n That’s all for this lesson about the The Colours in Spanish<\/strong>. It is always useful to know the colours as we use them frequently, so please do your best to try to remember them. Though it may be simple in comparison to grammar, vocabulary is the biggest challenge when learning a second language. It takes time to build up your repertoire of vocabulary, so we recommend that you start asap and try learning around ten new words daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is the seventeenth lesson in our beginner level Spanish course and we will look at The Colours in Spanish and practice describing parts of the body with Colours and Tener (To have). In our previous lesson we learned about the Parts of the Body in Spanish and how to make physical descriptions with useful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":53567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[1391,1516,1652],"class_list":["post-53553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spanish-lessons","tag-beginner-spanish-lessons","tag-learn-spanish","tag-spanish-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53572,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53553\/revisions\/53572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMoreno: Black
\nRubio: Blonde
\nPelirrojo: Red\/Ginger
\nCanoso: Grey<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-Colours-in-Spanish-hair.jpg\")
<\/p>\nNext, let’s practice using these new adjectives to describe the parts of the body…<\/h4>\n
\nElla tiene los ojos grandes y marrones: She has big brown eyes
\nTenemos el pelo largo y rubio: We have long blonde hair
\n\u00c9l no tiene el pelo canoso. Tiene el pelo moreno: He doesn’t have grey hair. He has black hair<\/p>\nPossessive Adjectives & The Family:<\/h4>\n
\nNo, su pelo es largo y pelirrojo: No, his hair is long and ginger.<\/p>\n
\nNo, sus ojos son marrones: No, her eyes are brown<\/p>\n
\nS\u00ed, sus dientes son muy blancos: Yes, their teeth are very white<\/p>\nDark (Oscuro) & Light (Claro)<\/h4>\n