See also the lessons on matching adjectives according to its ending (regular and irregular): You can use “azulada” as the feminine form, depending on how you formulate your sentence. An adjective is a word that describes a noun. In Spanish, adjectives have different endings depending on whether the word they describe is masculine, feminine, singular or plural. However, don`t let this stress you out too much, because most of the time, colors behave as they should: as descriptive adjectives. Even if you start your adventure with the Spanish language, you probably already know that nouns and adjectives must match in gender and number. All of them do. As you can see, there are adjectives that follow the regular rule for endings that use -o/-as/-os/-as (rojo, amarillo, negro, blanco, morado). There are also adjectives where the singular masculine form ends in -e or a consonant, and it retains the same form in the feminine singular (verde, azul, gray, marrón) and the two plurals of sex end in -es (not -os/-as). If you search for an adjective in the dictionary, it is always in the singular masculine form, for example blanco. Adjectives in Spanish usually follow the patterns in this table to match the noun they describe. There`s one last thing you need to know about colors that work as adjectives. Complete sentences with the right adjective endings. Finally, if you have a color that acts as a noun followed by a noun (as in some of the examples of “locked” colors), the color may have a plural form, but the noun/adjective still remains in its basic form: Antonio me ha dado sus gafas azul marino.
(Antonio gave me his navy blue glasses.) What could be more specific than is there a feminine form for “azul”? Take, for example, the color blue. We have: blue (azul), navy blue (azul marino), sky blue (azul cielo), azure blue (celeste), cobalt blue (azul cobalto), cyan (cian or azul verdoso), ultramarine (azul de ultramar), etc. All Spanish names are masculine or feminine. There is no gender neutral anywhere in the language. If you describe something by color, you should use an appropriate adjective – if the noun is masculine, the color adjective should be masculine. If the noun is feminine, the adjective of the color must be feminine. And they must also follow the singular and plural. How and when do we do this if the adjective is a color? Due to the locked rule, the color and adjective become immutable, so that they remain the same regardless of the sex or number of the noun: like other Spanish adjectives, they must change sex and number to match the nouns they change. However, there are a few exceptions: so it is no wonder that they are mainly used as adjectives in Spanish. azul marino (navy blue) → the camisa azul marino (navy blue shirt) If you write or speak in Spanish, whenever you have the combination noun + color + adjective + noun, you should remember that the color and adjective/noun are “included”.
You will love these colors: they have only two shapes, one for the singular and one for the plural. No me gustan los azules marino. (I don`t like navy blue.) Apart from that, they are like any other color that acts as an adjective. They change a name and follow it. Light! Most colors in Spanish are regular adjectives that correspond to the noun they accompany in gender and number. Here is a table of regular and irregular color objectivs in Spanish: they are not gender-specific, so they do not have special feminine shapes. Just learn the basic form, make it plural and you`re good to go! In Spanish, adjectives must correspond to the nouns they describe, which means they must indicate whether they are masculine or feminine and singular or plural to conform to the noun. Isn`t Azul neutral as an adjective because it doesn`t end with an “o” or an “a”? Thus, as an adjective, it would remain unchanged if it described a single male or female noun. The color group ending in -o includes all colors that behave like normal adjectives. Nunca er visto ballenas azules.
(I`ve never seen blue whales.) Nationality adjectives ending in -o, e.g. chino, argentino follow the same patterns as in the table above. Some nationality adjectives end with a consonant, for example galés, español and alemán and they follow a slightly different pattern: this means that regardless of gender or number, the main noun remains the color and the adjective/noun in the singular masculine form! The gender of a color varies depending on whether it acts as an adjective or a noun, and if it is modified by another adjective or noun, so I like to define colors as sexual fluid. The most commonly used color modifiers in Spanish are the adjectives claro (light) and oscuro (dark): as you will see in the next two sections, the kind of colors in Spanish is not something you can just keep and call it one day.. .