Language/French/Grammar/Colour-adjective-compounds

Compound adjectives — Colour adjective compounds

Combinations of colour adjectives remain invariable:

French	English
des cheveux châtain clair	light-brown hair
une veste bleu foncé	a dark-blue jacket
une mer vert-bouteille	a bottle-green sea
une couverture gris-rouge	a red-grey cover

Other Lessons

• Ordinal numbers as fractions
• Nouns which change form when they refer to males or to females
• Nouns which exist only in plural form
• Use of stressed pronouns for emphasis
• Nouns which change meaning when they change gender
• Subject verb agreement — Agreement with more than one subject linked by “et”
• Non agreement of direct object numerals with coûter, peser and mesurer
• "de" when an adjective precedes the noun
• Nouns
• Demonstrative determiners
• How to write and read numbers
• Plurals of nouns ending in eu, au, eau
• Gender of the noun indicated by its final letter
• Summary table of articles
• Infinitives