How do you say these colors in French?

Question

I have fallen in love with the french language. I am trying to become fluent. How would you say the following colors, Red, Black, Purple, Yellow, Green, Orange, Blue.
How would say something like my wallet is purple?
Is there any system for learning French someone can recommend, i would like to move to montreal next January.

Answer 1

Here are all the basic colors in french: In the cases were there are 2 french words for a color, The first saying is masculine, the second is feminine.

black noir/noire (nwahr)

white blanc/blanche (blahng/blahnsh)

gray gris/grise (gree/greez)

red rouge (roozh)

blue bleu/bleue (bluh)

yellow jaune (zhawn)

green vert/verte (vehr/vehrt)

orange orange (oh-RAHNZH)

purple violet (vee-oh-LEH)

brown marron (mah-ROHNG)

pink rose (rose)



My wallet is purple: Mon portefeuille est violet



And for the systems to learning french, I reccomend just trying to learn a new word every day. Doing this will help you extend your vocabulary. Once you understand how french words are written, it's easy to learn many more. Focus on the roots of the words.



A few easy phrases for you to learn:



Hello: Bonjour

Goodbye: Au revoir

Me: Moi

You: Toi

Yes: Oui

No: Non

How are you?: Cava?

My name is: Je m'appelle

Answer 2

Red: Rouge (rooj)

Black: Noir (nwar)

Yellow: Jaune (jon ["N" is silent] )

Green: Vert (vair-t)

Orange: Orange (orawnge)

Blue: Bleu (bluh)



Unfortunately, I forgot how to say "wallet". I think the sentence would be: Mon violet purse. (My purple wallet/purse)



You can join a French club that caters to teaching beginners.. Or if you're still in school, you can join a French Immersion school.

Answer 3

Hi,

From my personal experience, I've found that you could learn a lot from online resources whether free or paid. I'll share some resources with you that are provided by French101.me which I found great for learning the French language online.



First of all, I'd recommend watching the videos they provide for free on youtube at



http://www.youtube.com/french101dotme



they have a video related to colors which you can watch through



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wl-JgQAW-s



You can watch one video a day and try to memorize as much words as you can. In the same time you can learn a new French word daily by installing their Facebook application which can be found at



http://apps.facebook.com/dailyfrenchword/



and if you're willing to get further into learning the language there's no better than joining their paid membership site at



http://www.french101.me



Hope it helps you!

Answer 4

I love the French language, it's beautiful



Red=Rouge, roo-gje, soft g,

purple=Violet, vee-oh-lay

Black=Noir, knew-wah

Green=Vert, ver

Orange=Orange, aw-rarnge, soft g

Blue=bleu, blur

Yellow=Jaune gh-ohn, soft g



My wallet=Mon portefeuille



You put the noun before the colour, eg J'ai un chien noir= I have a black dog.



Good luck with your french x

Answer 5

Don't forget as you're learning these that French adjectives have to agree with the gender of the noun, so you have to learn both the masculine and feminine forms of these. Some of them only have one form.



red: rouge

black: noir/noire

purple: pourpre

yellow: jaune

green: vert/verte

orange: orange

blue: bleu/bleue



My wallet is purple = Mon portefeuille est pourpre.



"Portefeuille" is masculine

Answer 6

free French courses and exercises: http://www.lepointdufle.net/

free beginners'French: www.bbc.co.uk/languages [with audio material]

lots of other free stuff online - just put apprendre français into google.fr



French textbooks, dictionary, gramarbooks - Amazon - you really must have a good dico.

Most important thing, get something to listen to - the accent isn't so very different in Québec - in fact the rolled /r/ is a lot easier to say than the Parisian one! - so it doesn't matter too much what CDs/ other audio material you get, but listen as much as you can.

Answer 7

Rouge, noir, violet, jaune, vert, orange, bleu

Mon porte-monnaie est en mauve

Canadian-French and France-French are a bit different idiomatically and in pronunciation.

Answer 8

Rouge

Noir

Violet

Jaune

Vert

Orange

Bleu



My wallet is purple = Mon porte-monnaie est violet.

Answer 9

I like the personality of a french bulldog. They are so sweet.