4.7 – Describing Clothes – Colors

We’ve already gotten practice using our basic color adjectives in describing clothes –

Now let’s dig a little deeper and learn some more ways of talking about colors.

Combining color adjectives

We might want to talk about something being light green or dark blue. To do this, combine them with the words světle ‘light’ and tmavě ‘dark’ (you remember these from beer, right?).

You can also combine colors together:

Now, these are really only if you want to get super specific with your colors. Most of the time you’ll be fine with the basic. But sometimes you just have that need…

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