Quick answer
Quiero la camisa blanca, no la roja.
I want the white shirt, not the red one. The colour comes after the noun and copies its gender and number.
The words
| Spanish | English |
|---|---|
| el color | the colour |
| blanco | white |
| negro | black |
| rojo | red |
| azul | blue |
| verde | green |
| amarillo | yellow |
| naranja | orange |
| rosa | pink |
| morado | purple |
| gris | grey |
| marrón | brown |
| claro | light |
| oscuro | dark |
| el tono | the shade |
The phrases you will actually say
Worth knowing
Colours ending in -o change with the noun: un coche rojo, una casa roja, unos zapatos rojos. Colours ending in -e or a consonant only change in the plural: verde / verdes, azul / azules, gris / grises. Two everyday words behave oddly because they are really nouns: naranja and rosa normally stay unchanged, so careful speakers say unas camisas rosa, although you will hear rosas constantly in the street. The second trap is that a two-word shade freezes the whole phrase: it is unos ojos verde oscuro, never verdes oscuros. Regional vocabulary differs too, since much of Latin America says café where Spain says marrón, and Mexico uses morado where Spain often says violeta.
Practice
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