"Non abbiamo stivali rosa."

Translation: We do not have pink boots.

[Crentist]

Why is 'rosa' not changed to match the masculine stivali?

[f.formica]

Some words are invariant, and several of them are colors; rosa, viola, lilla, blu...

[yuri.sugan]

Not even to the plural? Is "gli stivali rose" wrong?

[f.formica]

Yep :)

[IdeanBehfo]

I saw an explanation to the effect that some color words do not declense because they are abbreviations of phrases such as "the color of a rose," "the color of coffee," etc

[Biochemistry]

Is it wrong to incorporate the article "the" in the translation, as in "the pink boots?"

[jesslc]

I don't think it would be wrong to say "non abbiamo gli stivali rosa"

(I'm not a native speaker though)

[lrchr2]

I thought there always had to be an article, unless talking about direct family members. Why is this case different?

[MarvinMenjivar]

Why is always the word "rosa" not accepted as pink or red, sometimes it accepts it as red or pink, but when it doesn't it shows my answer is incorrect!

[f.formica]

Rosa (pink) and rossa (red) are two different words with different pronunciation (/rɔsa/ vs /rossa/). Besides, "rossa" is the singular feminine of "rosso", and it can't describe a masculine plural like "stivali".

[TravelAbout69]

I think in this case "the pink boots" would infer a specific pair as opposed to not having any pink boots. Jmo

[apiwich111]

Why is it not "rosi"