Adjective of color

In grammar, the adjectival of colors are qualifying adjective used to qualify the Couleur of an object, a landscape or a character.

Examples

Attributive adjective

Batman bought red scissors .

It had painted its wall with a yellowish white .

English: This has green APPLE.

Predicative adjective

the nose of Rudolph is red .

the cosmic knights are yellow .

English: This APPLE is green .

Agreement

The general rule is that only the qualifying adjectives of color (and nouns comparable) agree when there is only one adjective for only one color.

More precisely:

Seuls the following words must be regarded as true adjectives, likely to agree in kind and of number:

Chestnut horse, bai, beige, white, blue, fair, brown, crimson, gilded, gray, yellow, chechmate, mordoré, black, red, russet-red, minnow, green, purple.

the list of the other colors being unlimited, these others alleged adjectival are actually names and must be preceded by the group implied “ of the color of ”; consequently, they must remain invariable:

Amaranth, anthracite, money, carmine, cherry, flesh, chocolate, lemon, shell of egg, cream-coloured, copper, emerald, raw, khaki, maroon, mustard, hazel nut, olive, gold, orange, magpie, pepper and salt, Ground of His, the, etc

Certains names is compared to the adjectives and agrees:

Scarlet, fawn-coloured, mauve, crimson, pink.

Note:: châtain, incarnates, chestnut and orange tends sometimes to to bend; they then join also the list of the true adjectives, but the agreement is not systematic.

a hair châtain or châtaine.

If a true qualifier of color is the core of a adjectival group (i.e. it is followed or preceded by a complement of this adjective), it is invariable:

Of the blue shirts. Shirts sky. Shirts Prussian blue. Shirts yellow straw.

Pareillement, if a true qualifying adjective of color is followed of another qualifier such as clearly, dark, pale, luminous , etc, the two adjectives remain invariable.

Of the shirts dark blue. Shirts blue sky.

In the same way, if several colors are joined together by coordinating conjuctions, they remain invariable provided that with less one of them is not a true adjective of color (but here, the use is vaguer):