A la hora de hablar de los colores en ingles nos podemos encontrar con una gran variedad de colores ya que hay tantos colores como matices, cosas , y también desde el punto de vista de cada persona un mismo color puede verse de diferentes formas. Por todo esto me he atrevido a hacer este articulo en el que he intentado recopilar toda la variedad de colores posibles . Espero que sea de vuestro agrado y a la vez le encontráis la utilidad y así podáis darle color a la vida !!!
Word order with colours/ Orden de los colores
Hay tres formas en las
cuales puedes usar un color en una oración para describir algo
- 1. To Be + Colour. e.g. My car is blue. My dad's car is red.
- 2. Colour + Noun. e.g. The blue car is mine. The red car is my dad's.
- 3. Colour is the Noun. e.g. Blue is the colour of my
car. Red is the colour of my dad's car.
Light - Dark - Bright -Shades
Los colores tienen diferentes
sombras , matices o intensidades que en ingles se pueden expresar de diferentes
maneras: dark green,
light green, bright green
Light (claro) es el contrario de Dark (oscuro).
Pale (palido) is the
opposite of deep (profundo, intenso)
Bright: brillante , color fuerte fácil de ver.
- Helen
has got dark green eyes.-Helen tiene los ojos verde oscuro.
- His light grey hair made him
look very distinguished. Su
cabello gris claro le hace parecer muy distinguido.
- Her bright pink dress is very expensive.Su vetido rosa
brillante es muy caro.
Los
adjetivos light, dark y
bright se colocan delante del sustantivo o
nombre al que acompañan como cualquier otra adjetivo.
Cuando no estes seguro de como describir un color puedes utilizar el sufijo -ish que los hablantes nativos
ingleses utilizan muy a menudo. Por ejemplo un color puede ser: purplish,
reddish, bluish, Greenish
(= aproximando se al verde pero no exactamente verde).Por ejemplo cuando decimos “brownish”, hacemos referencia a una clase de marron
aunque no a un marron definido.
- The sunset is a beautiful pinkish-purplish colour
today.
- His blouse is lightish blue in colour.
·
• She has brownish-green
eyes
·
• Philip has reddish-brown
hair.
Si te gustan los colores y te entretiene
aprender mas colores en ingles aquí te
dejo un listado de colores muy variado pues como dice un famoso refran "Para
gustos colores" For example:
shell pink, navy blue, salmon
Typical things of each Colour
La siguiente lista recopila cosas que suelen estar asociada a cada color:
Red: Strawberry,
Rose, Fire engine, Blood, Heart
Orange: Pumpkin,
Carrot, Basketball
Yellow: Cheese,
Sun, Butter, Lemon
Green: Grass,
Lettuce, Frog, Leaf, Lizard
Blue: Sky,
Ocean, Blueberry, Whale
Black: Bat,
Night, Tire (tyre), Fly
White: Paper,
Sugar, Milk, Snow, Sheep
Pink: Pig,
Tongue, Cotton candy (Candy floss)
Brown: Wood,
Cigar, Earth, Acorn, Horse
Grey / Gray: Rock,
Lead, Dust, Mouse, Elephant
Purple: Bruise,
Grapes
Adjetivos y sustantivos que generalmente se usan para describrir los colores es decir sinónimos o palabras relacionadas con los colores
Light pale in colour,
not dark. (claro)
Clear- claro
Clean clean smells , tastes and colours are light and fresh. (limpio)
Delicate: a delicate taste, smell or colour is pleasant and not too strong.(delicado)
Pure a pure sound, colour, light etc is very clear and beautiful.(puro)
Mellow: soft and warm in colour.(suave)
Watery: pale and strong. (aguado)
Bright :bright colours are strong but not dark. Brillante
Ablaze: bright and full of light or colour (brillante)
Bold: very bright , clear or strong in colour and
therefore easy to notice. (intenso , llamtivo)
Brash: big, bright, or colourful in a way that is not
attractive. (atrevido)
Brilliant: brillante
Festive: Bright and colourful in a way that makes you think of a celebration. (festivo)
Fiery: very bright in colour, especially bright red, orange or yellow (literary) (intenso, fogoso)
Flamboyant: brightly coloured or decorated.(llamativo, extravagante)
Flaming: brightly coloured red, orange or yellow.(llameante, ardiente)
Fluorescent: very bright and seems to be
reflect ligth (fluorescente)
Gay: brightly- coloured or attractive ( old fashioned) (alegre , vistoso)
Glowing: Glowing colours are bright and look warm. (brillante, encedido)
Harsh: not pleasant
because they are very bright (penetrante, estridente)
Jazzy bright colourful nad attractive (informal) (llamativo, chillon)
Loud very bright in a way that doesn`t show good taste. (alto)
Twinkling: centelleante
Psychedelic: psychedelic clothes, desings
are very brightly coloured and have big unusual patterns.(sicodelico)
Showy brightly coloured and attractive (ostentoso, llamativo)
shimmering: reluciente
Vibrant: brigt and colourful. (vibrante)
Violent: very bright and almost painful to look at.(violento)
Vivid bright and string. (vivido, alegre)
Pale- pálido
Bleached: made very pale by chemicals or strong
sunlight.(blanqueado)
dull: mate, opaco,
sin brillo (apagado)
Drab: apagado,
monotono (apagado)
Soft: a soft light or colour is pale, gentle and pleasant to look at.(suave)
Muted not as bright or colorful as usual. (apagado, tenue)
Neutral : not very strong or bright. (neutral)
Monochrome: not brightly coloured and usually grey in colour. Able to show or produce
only black , white and grey. (momocromatico)
Restrained: not too bright in colour or not decorated too much. (contenido, refrenado)
Sickly: a sickly colour is so pale that
it looks unpleasant .(palido, enfermizo)
Sober: plain and not brightly colored .(sobrio, serio)
Pastel: Having a pale soft colour.
Dark: strong and not
pale in colour.Oscuro
Deep: dark and strong. (profundo)
Sombre: dark in colour, specially grey or black. (sombrio)
Opaque: dull, dark-opaco (opaco)
Rich a rich color, sound or smell is strong in a pleasant way. (rico)
Colourful something that is colourful has bright colours or a lot of different
colours
Bicolor: bicolor
Chintzy: too colourful and in poor taste (floreado, recargado)
Coloured :red, green, orange instead of black and white or transparent. (colorido)
Iridescent : showing changing colours in
different types of light (Irisado)
Multicolored consisting of several
different colours. (Multicolor)
Opalescent seems always to be changing colour slightly
Tricolor-tricolor
Two-tone:: two-toe shoes or clothes have two colours (informal old fashioned) (con dos tonos)
Colourless : without colour - sin color
Glassy: like a glass-(cristalino)
Discoloured:
it has changed in colour and no longer looks,
new, clean or healthy (descolorido)
Transparent-trasparente
Crystalline: transparent (cristalino)
Translucent: very pale or light. (Traslucido)
washed-out: washed-out
clothes have lost a lot of their colour because they have been washed so often.(lavado, descolorido)
Cold: colours such as
white, blue, and grey that make you think of things that are cold. -Frio
Cool: cool colours such as white and blue, give an idea of cold instead of heat. (Fresco)
Medium: neither light nor dark in colour.
Others
Brindle: manchado
Dotted: punteado
Dappled: covered with or foring areas of lighter and darker colour or light and
shadow (con lunares moteado)
Harmonious: harmonious colours or parts
combine well with each other.(harmonioso)
Color-coded: marked with different colour to make it easy to see different features or
uses.(codificado por colores)
Monotone: all the same shade of that colour.(monotono)
Tinted: containing a small amount of a
aprticular colour.(tintado)
Tonal: relating to the tone of something, especially a colour or sound.(tonal)
Fast : Colours that are fast will not become paler when clothes are washed. (rapido, sensible)
Fresh colours with give the impression of something fresh.(fresco)
Matching with some colour, pattern or design (que combina)
Smoky: ahumado
Tinged something that is tinged with a colour, feeling, or
quantity contains a small amount of it.(teñido)
Polka-doted: paterned with spots (a lunares)
Warm : warm colours have red, orange, or yellow in them. (calido)
Descriptive
words /adjetives for colour pink
Pink: rosa
Rose: rosa
Salmon: warm pink in colour- salmon
Strawberry: fresa
Adjectives and Descriptive words for color RED
