Learn The Colors in Spanish

The colors in Spanish are an important building block of your Spanish vocab and in helping you learn some descriptive language in the process.

We will start with the most basic colors and then move to a brief grammar lesson to help you with proper placement of the words.

 

Spanish	Color	English
amarillo		yellow
rojo		red
azul		blue
verde		green
blanco		white
negro		black
gris		grey
anaranajado/naranja		orange
morado		purple
marrón/café		brown
rosa		pink

 

So here is some basic Spanish grammar to go along with your colors in Spanish lesson.

Gender and colors in Spanish

The Spanish language consists of nouns that are either masculine or feminine. Whenever you use an adjective such as a color to describe something or someone, it must match the gender of the noun or the pronoun that it modifies.

So for example:

I have a yellow ball = Tengo una pelota roja (ball is feminine, therefore rojo becomes roja)

I have a yellow book = Tengo un libro amarillo (book is masculine, therefore, amarillo remains in the masculine format)

In most cases words ending in a are feminine and words ending in o are masculine.

Also, in most cases, unlike the English language, in Spanish, colors come after the nouns they describe.

A black cat = un gato negro

A white dog = un perro blanco

An exception would be if the color is describing an inherit quality, then it goes in the front.

The blue sky = el cielo azul

The orange house = la casa anaranjada

Did you notice that casa is feminine? Making anaranjado now anaranjada.

Some colors do not change with gender, such as: azul, marrón, rosa, gris and verde.

If you would like more information on how to pronounce these colors properly, hop on over to my Spanish pronunciation page.

For more colors and another quick grammar lesson on singular and plural, go over to my Spanish colors page.