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Example class
Level A1

Let's learn colors!

Today
we're learning
ty
Barvy
colors
They'll make
your Czech
world bright
and full of light.
Let's meet
some of them:
A bucket and brush with red paint
červená
red
A bucket and roller with blue paint
modrá
blue
A bucket with green paint
zelená
green
A bucket with yellow paint
žlutá
yellow
A bucket and brush with orange paint
oranžová
orange
A bucket with white paint
bílá
white
černá
black
A bucket with pink paint and brush
růžová
pink
A bucket of purple paint
fialová
purple
A bucket of brown paint
hnědá
brown
A buecket with grey paint
šedá
grey
A bucket with beige paint
béžová
beige
zlatá
gold
🥇
stříbrná
silver
🥈  
This one is hard to
pronounce even for
some Czechs 😊.
bronzová
bronze
🥉
You’ll notice these colors often end with -á. Color words are adjectives. They like to change a little depending on the grammatical gender of what they describe.
Let’s try it with some real words:
zelený strom
green tree
žluté slunce
yellow sun
moře je modré
the sea is blue
mrak je šedý
the cloud is grey
Czech also likes to describe light and dark shades.
The word
světlý
light
means light, and
tmavý
dark
When we
add it to
another adjective
it changes
to fit the
word it
describes:
světle modrá
light blue
světle zelená
light green
tmavě červená
dark red
This is
how Czech
builds colors
— softly
joining
one describing
word to
another.
Sometimes,
a color
can even
become
the noun:
Bílá je krásná
white is beautiful
In these
cases,
Czech uses
the feminine
form,
because
the word
ta
barva
color
is feminine.

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