"Chúng tôi thấy những cái đĩa màu cam."

Translation: We see the orange dishes.

[Michaelstelmo]

the explanation above shows the need for mau to distinguish from fruit in vietnamese why then is my answer" we see the orange coloured plates " wrong. It seems to me the same logic applies

[bloomy_0]

Why can't i use the words plates instead of dishes?

[GiaLang3]

Đĩa : Plates, dishes. Phương ngữ miền Trung còn gọi đĩa là dĩa ; nhưng người miền Bắc và miền Nam gọi dĩa là vật để xiên vào thức ăn : fork (n)

[s.aitken88]

Would be good if we could use plates here...

[brjaga]

Is "màu" required here? All of the examples I've seen so far of colors used as attributive adjectives have not had a classifier.

[tuyendev]

Yes. Sometime you can skip " màu" but in this case if you don't put " màu" . We will think it's fruit not color . Did you get it ? If you don't undersand ask me any question. ^^