French colours game
Twelve colours plus four shades built from them: bleu clair, bleu foncé, vert clair, rouge foncé. Once you have clair and foncé, the palette roughly doubles without a single new word.
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All seven games take this set. Grid Hack and The Vault both suit it, because the colour names are short: the only two that need care are marron, with its double r, and turquoise.
The 16 words you will practise
| French | English | Say it like |
|---|---|---|
| rouge | red | roozh |
| orange | orange | o-RONZH |
| jaune | yellow | zhohn |
| vert | green | vehr |
| bleu | blue | bluh |
| violet | purple | vyoh-LEH |
| rose | pink | rohz |
| marron | brown | ma-RON |
| noir | black | nwar |
| blanc | white | blon |
| gris | grey | gree |
| turquoise | turquoise | tuur-KWAHZ |
| bleu clair | light blue | bluh KLEHR |
| bleu foncé | dark blue | bluh fon-SAY |
| vert clair | light green | vehr KLEHR |
| rouge foncé | dark red | roozh fon-SAY |
Want the explanations rather than the drill? Read the French colors lesson.
7 games run on this set
- Sky Rescue: 10 rounds
- Pop Quiz: 10 rounds
- Kraken Escape: 48 rounds
- Warp Run: 10 rounds
- Flooded Hold: 6 rounds
- Grid Hack: 6 rounds
- The Vault: 14 rounds
Questions
Do French colours change with the noun?
Most do: vert becomes verte for a feminine noun and verts in the plural. The games use the dictionary form, the one you would look up. Marron and orange are the exceptions that never change at all.
Where does the colour go in a sentence?
After the noun, not before it. Une voiture rouge, not une rouge voiture. That is the opposite of English and worth fixing early.
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