Italian colours game
Fifteen colours, and Italian splits blue into two of them. Blu is the deep one, azzurro the lighter sky blue that gives the national team its name, and they are not interchangeable.
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All seven games take this set. The Vault is fair on almost every entry, though arancione is longer than it looks and marrone doubles its r.
The 15 words you will practise
| Italian | English | Say it like |
|---|---|---|
| rosso | red | ROS-soh |
| arancione | orange | ah-ran-CHOH-neh |
| giallo | yellow | JAL-loh |
| verde | green | VEHR-deh |
| blu | blue | bloo |
| azzurro | sky blue | ad-DZOOR-roh |
| viola | purple | VYOH-lah |
| rosa | pink | ROH-zah |
| marrone | brown | mar-ROH-neh |
| nero | black | NEH-roh |
| bianco | white | BYAN-koh |
| grigio | grey | GREE-joh |
| verde chiaro | light green | VEHR-deh KYAH-roh |
| verde scuro | dark green | VEHR-deh SKOO-roh |
| rosso scuro | dark red | ROS-soh SKOO-roh |
Want the explanations rather than the drill? Read the Italian 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
Blu or azzurro?
Blu is dark blue, navy, the blue of ink. Azzurro is the lighter blue of a clear sky, and it is why the national teams are gli Azzurri. English collapses both into blue, so the split has to be learned rather than translated.
Do Italian colours change with the noun?
Most do: rosso becomes rossa, rossi or rosse. Blu, rosa, viola and arancione do not change at all. The games use the dictionary form, the one you would look up.
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