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- "La rozo estas rozkolora."
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This seems like a really bad word for pink. An orange that you eat is always roughly yellow to orange in colour but roses have lots of colours. I can imagine Esperantan valentines being confusing: rosoj estas ruĝa .... wait a minute!
When Zamenhof created the language pink color was not regarded as a basic color as we do today. That's why there isn't a root for pink color.
This trouble has been solved a little using the pattern of Spanish/Portuguese. Matching roses with pink color even if roses have many colors.
In russian too. Rose is "Roza" and pink is "Rozavi" (if you translate roughly it would be "Rosean (color)"
Rosoj estas rugxaj kaj violoj estas bluaj. Vi pensis, ke gxi logika estis? Gxi neniam estis!!!
"ruĝaj" the adjective must match the noun's ending, I thought. What about the next line "Violets are blue." is as confusing in English as it is in Esperanto. Why aren't violets "violet" in English or "violkolora" in Esperanto?
Roses are rose. Violets are violet. Who took a brush, and made this big mess of it?
Roses are red
Violets are purple
Sugar is sweet
And so is maple surple.
I've worked with a woman named Sirpal. I'm not sure how she spelled it, but it's pronounced like "surple". I found "Surpal" online, but apparently that's a boy's name.
Unripe oranges, limes, decorative "osage oranges," and, I think, certain types of oranges that ripen before a cold season, are all green.
It's just an easy and familiar way to say red-yellow; pink/rozkolora is one way to say light-red.
I don't think it's a bad choice ! It's just like in French : the rose is pink -> la rose est rose. It's even less confusing than French, actually.
'pink' is 'rose' in french, 'rosa' in spanish... and in all the latin languages
Heh yeah! When I read this sentence, I was like: "No sh*t sherlock!" ;p
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do words such as rozkolora always have fixed meaning? For example, is rozkolora always = pink? Or can it also mean red?
no, Ruĝa is red. Rozkolora is a combination of the word for Rose (rozo) and Color (koloro) Since it is an adjective it must end it -a! Hope this helps!
Of course rozkolora is pink, because the first color that I think of when I'm thinking about roses is pink, not red. smh.
As kbalara has pointed out, the pattern of Spanish/Portuguese is used in this case. In Spanish we say "rosa" for both the colour pink and the flower rose.
I know you're known for stating the evident, but this a whole new special kind of low.
take a look at other languages like Spanish, where we have
rose (flower) → "rosa" pink (color) → "rosa" or "rosado" (kind of rose-ish)
The rose is pink → "La rosa es rosada" or "La rosa es rosa" or "La rosa es (de) color rosa".
No problem whatsoever.
Entering "The rose is pink" and it's rejected as wrong but it then says the correct answer is "The rose is pink"...
The roses are rose colored made me think... "and the shnozberries taste like shnozberries!"
The rose is rose colour! The orange is orange colour! The snozzberries taste like snozzberries!
