Agreement

When colors are used as adjectives, they are placed after the nouns they modify. Remember to change those that end in -o in number and gender to reflect the words they modify. Those that end in -e or a consonant change only in number.

• blanco, blancos, blanca, blancas
• rojo, rojos, roja, rojas
• verde, verdes
• azul, azules

Ejemplos:

• La casa es blanca. VS El coche es blanco.
• Las casas son blancas. VS Los coches son blancos.
• El lápiz es azul. VS Los lápices son azules.

**There are also colors that reference a fruit (naranja) or a flower (rosa, violeta) which have just one form that ends in -a for all masculine, feminine, singular and plural, although it is also correct to use the ending -as for both masculine and feminine plurals.

• Las faldas violeta o las faldas violetas
• Los coches rosa o los coches rosas

¡Qué raro tener un coche rosa!

Visit the following link to see and hear more examples:

• Kwiziq - Colours in Spanish

Watch the following video of the colors of houses in Colombia. (Música de Carlos Vivés en el fondo.)

Los colores de las casas colombianas (MisCositasTV, YouTube)

Actividad 1. Los colores.

With your partner, describe the image below, associating different objects in the classroom with their colors. (Note: for some objects you may need to use more than one color!)

• Modelo: La pared es blanca.

Suggested vocabulary: las sillas, la computadora, el mapa, los pósters, las mesas, el arcoiris (rainbow)

The information found on this page, when not created by us, is adapted from:

• Farmer, Zamostny, Hill, and Henderson Hollenbeck, Bienvenidos (CC BY).