French Adjectives – Agreement in Colour Words
French colour words, like other adjectives, must change their forms depending on whether the nouns they are describing are masculine (le/un words) or feminine (la/une words) and singular or plural. Eg. le crayon noir (the black pencil) les crayons noirs…
Using Colour Words
In French the colour words come after the nouns that they describe. For example:une pomme rouge = a red apple (an apple, red) See if you can translate the following phrases: une tomate rougeun chien brunune banane jauneune carotte orangele…
Pronouns
Instead of having a separate pronoun such as it to refer to things, French uses il (he, it) to replace masculine nouns and elle (she, it) to replace feminine nouns. The book is black. It is black.Le livre est noir.…
What colour is it?
To ask what colour something is, use the phrase “De quelle couleur…?” What colour is the book?De quelle couleur est le livre? The book is red.Le livre est rouge. What colour is the cat?De quelle couleur est le chat? The…
Les couleurs: Colours
rouge = redbleu = bluejaune = yelloworange = orangeviolet = purplevert = greenbrun = brownnoir = blackblanc = white Try our French Colour Quiz!Take the quiz! Sponsored by Nallenart. For more information about L’Art de lire and other products, visit…