"ピンクいろのシャツはほしくないです。"
Translation:I do not want a pink shirt.
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Hoshii is an i adjective, so, to make it negative (don't want), you drop the last I and add "kunai"
"To want" = hoshii (with 2 "I"s) "To not want" = hoshikunai
The negative modifier "ない" itself is an adjective. When you precede another i-adjective before it, you need to convert it into an adverb first, so "欲しい" being an i-adjective becomes "ほしく" an adverb before "ない". This is a different story for na-adjective, e.g. not好きな -> 好きではない (wrong: 好きにない). And no, a ku-adverb should not be treated as a verb whatsoever, it just happens to look like a ku-verb, but the inflections are completely different.
This is the sentence I say when my kids ask why they need to separate their red shirts from my white one on laundry day.
Not really because PINKU could be a person, then if there's no context you won't be able to tell whether it's "Pink's shirt" or "a pink shirt". Later or through different means you'll learn about a particle called "NA" な, which is used to tie adjectives to nouns for descriptions. "Pink na shatsu".
You're right, ピンクなシャツ is incorrect. Japanese is an extremely contextual language so it's not uncommon for things to be unclear like in the case of ピンクのシャツ. :/
As brian6499 pointed out, ピンク is classified as a noun/no-adjective on jisho.org. Nouns/no-adjectives require の after them to modify other words. Only i-adjectives like 青い (aoi, blue) can be placed in front of words without adding anything.
ピンクのシャツ (pinku no shatsu) vs. 青いシャツ (aoi shatsu)
もも means peach and いろ（色） means colour so it literally mean 'peach colour'. I can be used to describe cherry blossoms or things of a similar colour。
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No, cherry blossoms are another color 桜色 さくらいろ which is closer to white. 桃色 ももいろ describes peach blossom color. Most cherry blossoms are almost white with a nuance of red, while most peach blossoms are a more intense color. ピンク can be said to both. But 桃色 can only used for rare, color intense cherry blossoms while most are 桜色 and this is where the word 桜色 even comes from, since 桜 is the cherry blossom. Also, many pictures of Japanese cherry blossoms are photoshopped to make the color more intense. Go see it in real, and you know how it is almost white.
Wouldn't "I don't want THE pink shirt" be an acceptable translation as well?
Why the possessive の for an adjective? What if i want to say "the red house"? Isn't just "青い 家"?
It just makes the expression a noun i.e. "pinku iro no shatsu" is/can be considered a noun. It's the difference between saying "pink shirts" in English,which is a noun, and saying "the shirt is pink." The kanji you used is "ao" which means blue. Red is 赤い. I think the "no" is optional depending on the actual color. I remeber somebody posting about this on the reverse English for Japanese course.
There are two types of adjectives. い adjectives and な adjectives. They just work slightly differently.
Actually, in this cases I believe pink is not used as an adjective but more like "color pink" so の is okay.
In an earlier exercise i just said "ピンクシャツはほしくないです" and it accepted it. So is the "いろの" part actually necessary? Or is it just more formal?
Out of curiosity, how would you say "I don't want to wear a pink shirt?"
That works with another grammar, because it involves an action that you (don't) want to do. For this constellation you need the ～たい conjugation: ピンク色のシャツを着たくないです。
Just a general question about colors: I completed the first level of rosetta stone before using this app and they did not include the ~いろ after colors, is this gramatically correct? Do i need the いろ ending or can I just use the color word?
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I think iro specifies that you're talking the color pink, and that "pink" isn't a person's nickname or something like that
ほしい (hoshii) is an adjective in Japanese, and adjectives are followed by です.
シャツは青いです。 (shatsu wa aoi desu)
The shirt is blue.
シャツが欲しいです。 (shatsu ga hoshii desu)
I want a shirt (literally: a shirt is wanted).
シャツは青くないです。(shatsu wa aokunai desu)
The shirt is not blue.
シャツは欲しくないです。 (shatsu ha hoshikunai desu)
I don't want a shirt (literally: the shirt is not wanted).
The structure is [adjective]です.