🎨 Colors & Basic Adjectives — Colors and adjectives are essential for describing people, objects, and places in Arabic. This lesson covers common colors and basic adjectives with pronunciation in Urdu and English.
🔊 Click the Listen button next to each word to hear the pronunciation using Text-to-Speech.
💡 Grammar Note: In Arabic, colors and adjectives must agree with the noun they describe in gender (masculine/feminine) and number (singular/plural). The masculine form of a color often ends with a vowel sound, while the feminine form adds 'ة' (ta marbuta).
🌈 Basic Colors
| # | Color | Arabic (Masculine) | Arabic (Feminine) | Pronunciation (English) | تلفظ (Urdu) | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red | أحمر | حمراء | Ahmar / Hamra | احمر / حمراء | |
| 2 | Blue | أزرق | زرقاء | Azraq / Zarqa | ازرق / زرقاء | |
| 3 | Green | أخضر | خضراء | Akhdar / Khadra | اخضر / خضراء | |
| 4 | Yellow | أصفر | صفراء | Asfar / Safra | اصفر / صفراء | |
| 5 | Orange | برتقالي | برتقالية | Burtuqali / Burtuqaliya | برتقالي / برتقالية | |
| 6 | Purple | بنفسجي | بنفسجية | Banafsaji / Banafsajiya | بنفسجي / بنفسجية | |
| 7 | Pink | وردي | وردية | Wardi / Wardiya | وردي / وردية | |
| 8 | Brown | بني | بنية | Bunni / Bunniya | بني / بنية | |
| 9 | Black | أسود | سوداء | Aswad / Sawda | اسود / سوداء | |
| 10 | White | أبيض | بيضاء | Abyad / Bayda | ابيض / بيضاء | |
| 11 | Gray | رمادي | رمادية | Ramadi / Ramadiya | رمادي / رمادية | |
| 12 | Gold | ذهبي | ذهبية | Dhahabi / Dhahabiya | ذهبي / ذهبية |
📌 Note: Colors in Arabic change form based on the gender of the noun they describe. The masculine form is used with masculine nouns, and the feminine form with feminine nouns.
🎨 Color Cards
📝 Basic Adjectives
💬 Useful Phrases with Colors & Adjectives:
- ما لون هذا؟ (Ma lawnu hadha?) - What color is this?
- هذا أحمر (Hadha ahmar) - This is red.
- البيت كبير (Al-baytu kabeer) - The house is big.
- السيارة سريعة (Al-sayyaratu saree'ah) - The car is fast.
- هذا جميل جدا (Hadha jameel jiddan) - This is very beautiful.
📝 Practice Tips:
- Practice describing objects around you using colors and adjectives
- Learn the masculine and feminine forms of colors
- Practice using adjectives in sentences with the verb "to be"
- Try to describe people, places, and things using multiple adjectives
- Listen to the audio and repeat each word aloud
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