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Colori
What do buying clothes, talking about art, and shopping for fruits and vegetables have in common? Color! If you want to make sure to buy red tomatoes and critique an artist’s use of green, you’ll need to know the Italian colors.
| giallo | yellow | |
| arancione | orange | |
| rosso | red | |
| rosa | pink | |
| viola | purple | |
| blu | blue | |
| verde | green | |
| nero | black | |
| marrone | brown | |
| grigio | gray | |
| bianco | white | |
| blu chiaro azzurro |
light blue | |
| verde scuro | dark green |
Light and dark
The qualifiers chiaro (light) and scuro (dark) can be used with any color:
- viola chiaro, verde chiaro (light purple, light green)
- rosso scuro, blu scuro (dark red, dark blue)
etc.
Agreement
Colors are adjectives, and like other adjectives, they usually must agree with the nouns they modify in gender and number.
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