Swedish vocabulary
Colors in Swedish
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Colours are among the first adjectives you need. Like other Swedish adjectives they agree with the noun: add -t for ett-words and -a for plurals and definite forms, so blå becomes blått and blåa.
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Questions about Swedish colours
- What are the basic colors in Swedish?
- röd (red), blå (blue), grön (green), gul (yellow), svart (black), vit (white), grå (grey), brun (brown), rosa (pink), orange (orange), lila (purple).
- Do Swedish colors change form?
- Most do, because they are adjectives: en röd bil, ett rött hus, röda bilar. Rosa, orange and lila stay the same in every form.
- How do you ask what color something is?
- Say Vilken färg är den? (What color is it?). The answer is simply Den är blå (It is blue).