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Les Couleurs Francaises


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bleu - bleue

rouge - rouge .. :)

vert - verte

gris - grise

blanc - blanche

noir - noire

jaune - jaune :)

orange - orange

marron - marron ... (no feminine here ... e.g: la voiture marron )

rose - rose

violet - violette

These are the common ones ... then, you have a lot of other colours ...

-bordeaux (burgundy red ... funny, the French use the colour of wine in Bordeaux while the English use the colour of wine in Burgundy :S )

- turquoise

- argenté(-e)

- écru (cream colour)

- pourpre (purple)

- grisâtre, bleuâtre, rougeâtre, etc ... (greyish, blueish, reddish, etc ...)

- mauve (light purple)

etc ...

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Curu

You forgot :

brun - brune

And be careful about plurals, some colors cannot be pluralized as :

orange (you will not see : **des voitures oranges, it will be "des voitures orange")

marron

(and almost everything that doesn't refer to the color itself)

We also use a lot of colors that refers to the object, and if we want to make clear it's the color we think, we use "couleur" :

La voiture couleur nuage

L'ordinateur couleur pomme

La boîte couleur peau

Les chevaux couleur nuit

(and you can be quite poetic if you want, as with couleur nuit (color of night))

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