JAPANESE Lesson Six - Colors (Colours?)

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Japan has just as many colours as anywhere else, and they need to talk about them. On with the words!

colour - iro

red - aka

green - midori

purple- murasaki

white - shiro

blue - ao

black - kuro

yellow - kiiro

gold colour - kiniro

brown - chairo

peach colour - momoiro

pink - pinku (written in katakana)

grey - gurei (written in katakana)

You'll notice that a lot of these colours end on o. To change any -o colour to a verb, add an i.

EXAMPLE!

ao means blue

aoi means "is blue"

Culture note for you - in Japan, the "go" light on traffic lights is not green. It is blue. Even in places where the lights are green, they still refer to them as "ao".

This is a useful video for learning the colours. You can ignore the kanji if you want, but it will pronounce them for you and repeat them over and over.

http://www.genkienglish.net/genkijapan/howtosaycolorsinjapanese.htm

Any questions? Comments? You know what to do!

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[x-Meoi-x]

watashi no suki na iro wa aka to kuro desu!♥
atari? ( am i right)  

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95Neko-chan95

watashi no suki na iro wa aka to kuro desu!♥
atari? ( am i right)

Absolutely! Very good.  

[this little secret]

Watashi no suki na iro sa a lot so I'm not sure maybe ao or aka.  

[x-Meoi-x]

knowyourlittlesecret

Watashi no suki na iro sa a lot so I'm not sure maybe ao or aka.

if you want to say you have many favourite colors you could say: watashi wa ippai suki no iro o motteru yo.demo ichiban suki no iro wa sou kamou shirenai aka to ao ( my absolute fave color is maybe red or blue)  

[this little secret]

Oh. Thank you for your help~  

[Kuronuma Sadako]

Watashi no suki na iro wa pinku to aka desu xp  

[Swim47]

Watashi no suki na iro wa aka to murasaki.  

[Asano Wakana]

Watashi no suki na iro wa midori to ao desu.  

[ShiroXMomo Hinamori]

SHIRO!!!My name!!  

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Shirohanalove

SHIRO!!!My name!!

So your name means "White Flower Love" I assume? biggrin  

[x-AkaruiKijo-x]

Watashi no suki na murasaki to kuro to aka to shiro to ao desu ^^  

[KassyRawr]

Watashi no suki na iro wa midori to murasaki desu.

 

[blasted by bubbles]

Watashi no suki na iro wa murasaki to pinku. 4laugh  

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<3

Watashi no suki na iro wa murasaki desu! :3