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The following French tutorial was written by a soon to be graduate student in linguistics named Jennifer Wagner, who runs a fantastic website called Indo-European Languages - ielanguages.com. We thank her for generously allowing us to post her work here!

14. French Colors & Shapes - Les couleurs et les formes

name of color		pronunciation
blanc/he		blawn/sh
noir/e		nwahr
rouge		roozh
bleu/e		bluh
jaune		zhohn
rose		roze
vert/e		vehr/t
gris/e		gree/z
orange		oh-rahnzh
pourpre violet/te		poo-pruh vee-oh-leh/lett
brun/e marron		brahn/brewn mah-rohn

square	le carré	kah-ray
circle	le cercle	sair-kluh
triangle	le triangle	tree-awn-gluh
rectangle	le rectangle	ruhk-tawn-gluh
oval	l'ovale	loh-vahl
cube	le cube	kewb
sphere	la sphère	sfair
cylinder	le cylindre	see-lahn-druh
cone	le cône	kohn
octagon	l'octogone	ok-toh-gohn
box	une boîte	bwaht

Note:  In French, nouns and adjectives have a gender.  Ex: vert/e = vert is the masculine form of green, verte is the feminine form.  Almost all adjectives agree in gender and number with the noun they modify (except marron and orange, as well as colors that are modified with the words clair-light and foncé-dark) and most are placed after the noun.  Un carré brun would be a brown square and une boîte noire would be a black box