Colors in Spanish 101 (+Practice Quiz)

Learning how to say colors in Spanish is usually one of the first things you’ll tackle. Why? Well, they are useful on their own, but are also great basic adjectives to learn basic grammar with.

Spanish Colors List

There’s a LOT of different colors, but beyond a few core colors, we just end up making up weird names for slightly different hues. You really won’t ever need any colors other than these:

That’s about it! This covers you for 95% of occasions (people are much less specific with colors in Spanish than English).

You’ll want to practice these now. We’ve got an exercise next, but if you want to get our flashcards for this (and every other lesson) free, just click here.

Crazy Spanish Colors

OK – so fair warning, you probably won’t need these, so don’t worry about learning them unless you want to! But some people like to be very specific with their colors, so here are a bunch of extra colors for you:

Spanish Colors Worksheet

OK, so in this little exercise, we’re going to show you some images, and you need to say what colors are in them. We’ve given you some hints under each one – so identify the colors, and then check the key at the bottom.

Normal Colors Practice

 1. A __ __ __ __ __ __ __             2. __ O __ __             3. __ __ __ É

4. __ A__ __              5. __ O__A __ __        6. B __ __ __ __ __

 7. D __ __ __ __ O          8. M __ R __ __ __        9. __ A __ __ __ __ A      10. __ __ __ O

11. __ __ __ __ O             12. P __ __ __ __ __ __ O      13. __ __ I __

14. B __ __ __ __ __       15. V __ __ __ __        16. R __ S __        17. __ O __ __

18. __ __ __ L                       19. __ L __ __ __ __                    20. __ __ G __ __

Key:

1. Amarillo
2. Rojo
3. Café
4. Café
5. Dorado
6. Blanco
7. Dorado
8. Morado
9. Naranja
10. Rojo
11. Negro
12. Plateado
13. Gris
14. Blanco
15. Verde
16. Rosa
17. Rojo
18. Azul
19. Blanco
20. Negro

Crazy Colors Practice

1.  L__V__ ___ ___ A.

2. M__RR__ ___.          3. A___AR__LL___ C__ ___A___I___F

4. C__R___ON.      5. B___A___ ___O.       6. N___G___O.

7. C__E__A         8. V___N___T__N___ O

9. T__RR__C__T___        10. N__G___ ____

11. L__L__

12. M__L___A.

13. T__ ___QU__S___.

14. R__S__ ___ ___          15. B__R___O__A

16. F__C__I__

17. V__R__ __ __ __ __        18. B__A__ __

19. C__Q__ ___

Key:

1. Lavanda
2. Marrón
3. Amarillo canario
4. Carbón
5. Blanco
6. Negro
7. Crema
8. Vinotinto
9. Terracota
10. Negro
11. Lila
12. Malva
13. Turquesa
14. Rosado
15. Borgoña
16. Fucsia
17. Verdemar
18. Blanco
19. Caqui

How to Constantly Train These

This is an exercise you can do mentally to remember the colors. As you walk around your city, or home, look at different objects and mentally say to yourself what color it is. Do spread throughout a day or two and you’ll have the colors locked down.

You can do this with all sorts of objects, not just colors.

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