Lesson #253 -Colors

Basic colors you should know:

blanc (blahnk) -white (for a male word)

blanche (blahnsh) -white (for a female word)

noir (noh wah) -black (for a male word)

noire (noh wah) -black (for a female word)

rouge (roozh) -red (for male or female words)

bleu (bluh) -blue (for a male word)

bleue (bloo) -blue (for a female word)

vert (vehr) -green (for a male word)

verte (vehrt) -green (for a female word)

jaune (zhwahn) -yellow (for male or female words)

orange (ohr ranzh) -orange (for male or female words)

brun (bruhn) -brown (for a male word)

brune (broohn) -brown (for a female word)

Colors are adjectives (a word that describes something about noun or word it is paired with)

examples: the blue room, the red hat, the yellow bicycle, etc.

In French most adjectives most adjectives follow the noun:

le livre bleu (leh lee vruh bluh) -the blue book

la porte rouge (lah port roozh) -the red door

la semaine prochaine (lah seh mahn proh shayn) -the next week

There are a few adjectives that come before the noun. We will learn these in our next lesson.

You will also notice that a few adjectives like black, blue, white, etc have two ways to spell them based on whether or not the word is male or female)  With most adjectives you would end the male adjective with an "e" to make it female. (bleu-bleue, vert-verte, noir-noire etc)

Don't worry too much getting it right. Remember our purpose here is to learn enough french to be able to move around France being able to be somewhat understood.

Practice saying the colors as you look at different things for the next few days.