Colours in Spanish
Do the names of colours in Spanish language have a gender? How do you differentiate? And how do you understand their plural form.
Thanks in advance.
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¡Hello Anjman!
In Spanish the colours can be used as nouns or as adjectives. When you use them as nouns, the gender is always masculine: "el rojo, el azul, el amarillo, ...". When you use them as adjectives the gender changes depending on the noun they describe: "el auto rojo, la camisa amarilla, ...". The plural form follows the same rules, if are nouns: "los rojos, los azules, los amarillos" (only if you are referring to the color itself) if are adjectives: "los autos rojos, las camisas amarillas".
I hope this helps.
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Some colours have gender, here the list:
Colour: masc/fem
red: rojo/roja
yellow: amarillo/amarilla
orange: naranjo/naranja
pink: rosado/rosada
black: negro/negra
white: blanco/blanca
gray: plomo/ploma (the synonymous is "gris")
I hope it useful
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It's like Juan saying, but it's easy to remember:
In plural add "s" to final, like rojo -> rojos or amarillo -> amarillos
The gender is the difficult, so i recomend you to learn first articles and then, you can know what gender is it.
Remember:
La -> female singular
Las -> female plural
El -> male singular (not to confuse with él, pronoun)
Los -> male plural (but can be used for objects, ex. Los árboles)
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