Colors & Common Adjectives
Colors & Common Adjectives
Colors are a natural place to put the adjectives-as-verbs rule from the earlier 是/有 lesson into practice, and to meet 喜欢 (xǐhuan, to like) — one of the most useful verbs you'll learn.
Grammar Comparison
Grammar Comparison
Colors act as verbs too — no 是, just 很 + color
天很蓝 (tiān hěn lán, The sky is blue)
The sky is blue
Just like 我很高 (I am tall) from the earlier lesson, describing something's color skips 是 entirely: 天很蓝 is "sky very blue", not 天是蓝. As before, 很 (hěn) here is often just a grammatical filler rather than true emphasis — dropping it (天蓝) can sound like an incomplete sentence, so it's safest to keep it in a plain statement.
喜欢 (xǐhuan) takes a noun or a verb directly, no "to" needed
我喜欢红色 (I like red) — 我喜欢吃苹果 (I like eating apples)
I like red — I like eating apples
喜欢 (xǐhuan, to like) works exactly like other Chinese verbs you've met: it attaches directly to a noun (喜欢红色, like red) or another verb (喜欢吃, like to eat/eating) with nothing extra in between — no "to" and no gerund "-ing" ending required the way English needs one.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
- English
- red
- English
- blue
- English
- yellow
- English
- green
- English
- black
- English
- white
- English
- to like
- English
- sky
- English
- new
- English
- old (of things)
- English
- The sky is blue