Different colours
El azul y el amarillo hijo de dos colores Complementarios.
De hecho, el naranja es el complementario del azul y púrpura es la complementario de el amarillo, pero mi verdadera pregunta es, ¿son todos los colores masculinos en español?
In fact, orange is the complementary of blue and purple that of yellow, but my real question is, are all the colours masculine in Spanish? A dumb question probably, I am guessing they are. Thank you for your time...
Gracias por su tiempo ...
2 Answers
Since colors (I'm American so I use this spelling) are used as adjectives when they become nouns I would assume you use the masculine gender. However, some colors are actually nouns and can be used with the words color de... in most cases. The nouns have whatever gender is assigned to them (isn't it la naranja?) and according to my Spanish grammar book if they are used as adjectives they are generally invariable.
In everyday usage one would not speak of colors as nouns, but might refer back to a noun of a certain color as in:
¿Te gusta la camisa amarilla o azul? Me gusta la azul.
Do you like the yellow or blue shirt? I like the blue one.
I think this is a good question. I'm going to research the idea a little more myself.
"In fact, orange is the complementary of blue and purple that of yellow
I´m afraid i can't understand what you are saying, sorry.
But about masculine and feminine it depends if you want to use the color as noun or adjective.
As nouns the colors are all masculine:
Blue, red ,yellow, white.
El azul, el rojo, el amarillo, el blanco.
But used as adjectives they have gender:
White house, white car, red blood, red dot.
Casa blanca, auto blanco, sangre roja, punto rojo.
I hope this is what you are asking about
