color
nounBeginnerHigh frequency
What does “color” mean in English?
colour
Example sentences
¿De qué color es tu casa?
What colour is your house?
Mi color favorito es el azul.
My favourite colour is blue.
El cuadro tiene muchos colores.
The painting has many colours.
How to use it
Color means 'colour' (the concept itself). Masculine noun: el color, los colores. Used in phrases like de color [X] to soften a colour adjective ('it's [X]-coloured').
Common mistake
Color is masculine: el color, not 'la color'. Spell it without the British -our: color, not colour.
Topics
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Reference
This entry’s teaching guidance follows A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish (Butt, Benjamin & Moreira Rodríguez, Routledge), 4.