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Quelle Couleur?

These are the names for the colors in French! Colors are all adjectives as they describe something.

ADJECTIVES: Every adjectives gender and quantity must agree with the noun it describes. Some adjectives simply add e to the masculine form to form the feminine. Note the different pronounciations of each. ie. green (masculine) is vert, green (feminine) is verte

If you remember the Monkey and Giraffe from the last lesson, we can demonstrate how to describe them with the different adjectives.

English	French [masc.]
The green monkey	Le singe vert
The green monkeys	Les singes verts
Notice in the second example, because we are referring to more than one monkey, THE becomes LE + S, MONKEY becomes SINGE + S and GREEN becomes VERT + S.

English	French [fem.]
The green giraffe	La girafe verte
The green giraffes	Les girafes vertes
When describing things in French the adjective for the color goes after the item you are describing, as in all the above examples.

OK probably not the most useful phrases in French, but hopefully you can now see how a noun is Masculine or Feminine and how it affects what you do with your adjective!