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Question to native English speakers: would you say "The orange color" or "The color orange"?
We would add the linking verb "is" so the sentence would be "The color is orange."
Yes, I know, but I mean like... saying... "This is the color orange, the best color ever." or "This is the orange color, the best color ever".
I know you already got an answer, but as another native English speaker, I can confirm that we say "The color orange" and not "The orange color."
The second one would only be used if you were talking about a very specific color of orange. Maybe if there were buckets of paint and you were talking about an orange bucket, you might say, "The orange color is okay, but that purple color is even better." But talking about the color orange in general, definitely "the color orange."
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You don't always have to add the verb "is". i.e. "What is your favourite colour?" Answer: "The colour orange".
Usually we say "the color orange," but sometimes we say "the orange color." Example: 1) The color orange is used for the UF mascot. 2) The orange color on your throw pillows really brightens up the room.
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As a native English speaker, I can confirm that we would hardly ever say, 'color,' but, we would say, 'colour.' The language you have been asking about is American.
They are the same language...if you want to be technical they are separate dialects (if you even consider them that far apart.) It would be more like an accent with slight word differences, like there are from state to state.
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I was asking myself the same question haha. And something told me that it would depend on the context. Looking for the answers above, I think I got it right.
Actually, "arancio" is the orange tree, the fruit is "arancia" (plural: "arance").
A hint: often fruit tree are masculine such as the related fruit is feminine. E.g.: melo/mela; pero/pera; ciliegio/ciliegia; arancio/arancia; pruno/prugna; nocciòlo/nocciola; banano/banana... but: limone and fico are always masculine!!! (pay more attention on "fico"!) ;)
Its an adjective that (like most colors) agrees in gender and number with the noun its modifying.
The color orange and the orange color would not be used in the same way. You might say the orange color in that dress is bright. But if you wanted to talk about the color orange in general, you would say The color orange. This article has it on its title.
https://mymodernmet.com/history-color-orange/
I am sure if you perform a search where you are, you'll find plenty of hits for The colour orange.
As for your need for British spelling, I know that Duo accepts British spellings and terms, although I suspect it's always a struggle. Duolingo is an American company headquartered in Pennsylvania. They speak American English. They have never said anything but that. What is displayed as an answer will always be in American English. Get over yourself.
If the noun colore is masculine, why is it that the colour orange is translated as "il colore arancione" and not as "il colore aranciono"?
The base form of an adjective that you learn is generally the masculine one ending in o. If the first form that you think of doesn't end in o, then you should know that there are going to be differences. Both adjectives and nouns ending in e have to be different, because e is the normal ending for femmine plural nouns and their adjectives. Arancione has only two forms. Arancione is for either masculine or feminine nouns in the singular. Arancioni is used for both masculine and feminine nouns in the plural. A similar thing happens with nouns ending in e. They all form plurals with i, whether they are masculine and feminine. It can be misleading for learners who haven't learned all the genders of the nouns they know. It can mess up that perfect Italian system of having matching endings for the article, noun and adjective and/or make you think a feminine noun is masculine.
Colour can also be spelled color. My spelling which is common in Canada in many other countries should be accepted.
You will probably always have to report non American English spelling, but you need to use the report button. Duo doesn't read the user discussions.
Please accept "colour" as well as "color". We don't all spell the word in the American way.
Things posted here are not read by Duo staff members. This is a user forum. If you want new answers to be accepted, you have to report them using the report button and choosing my answer should have been accepted. You certainly know better than I how often that spelling is accepted on Duo, but I know it is some places. But the fact that each exercise has its own database of accepted answers and the exercises are all written by the American staff, you may have to make this same request for many exercises. Changing it in one, won't affect the others.
No. This is not a complete sentence in either language. It's just The color orange, like the book/movie The Color Purple.
That would be Il colore è arancione. This is just a sentence fragment. There is a quite famous movie named The Color Purple, which helped launch Whoopi Goldberg's and Oprah Winfrey's careers.
Well Italian makes it easy. Arancia is the fruit and arancione is the color.
