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- "This dress is light blue."
"This dress is light blue."
Translation:Cette robe est bleu clair.
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Yes. When you use more than one adjective to designate a single color (like "light blue," "dark green," "pale pink" etc.), neither of the adjectives changes according to the noun it modifies. For example:
Il a les yeux bleu clair et les cheveux brun foncé.
"He has light blue eyes and dark brown hair."
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Here is another example of the same sentence only with an added cliché. Cette robe est bleue. Non, cette robe est bleu-clair! Oui? D'accord? Bien noté?
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"Bleu pâle" is also used with nearly the same frequency as "bleu clair" though the latter has a slight edge. So we won't be quibbling about the difference between clair vs. pâle or pale vs. light here. Source: Google Ngram Viewer.
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I suspect it'll probably be added.
There are important register distinctions: http://www.french-linguistics.co.uk/grammar/this_that_in_french_ci_la.shtml
And it might be worth nothing that in practice adding the "-ci" constitutes but the slightest glimmer in usage: http://bit.ly/2KL7zXd (with "-là" only a bit more common).
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There is no "ça robe". "Ça" is a pronoun -- not an adjective -- and it cannot be used in the way you indicate.
2270
French has a standard order of words. In English, it's "light blue" (not "blue light"). In French, it's "bleu clair" (not "clair bleu").
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