🇬🇧 Listen & Repeat (English)
adjective
The colour of grass and leaves. Green is between yellow and blue on the colour spectrum.
Tinte o pigmento de color verde₁.
Adjective. Used before nouns: 'a green plant', or after verbs: 'the grass is green'. Common collocations: green tea, green card, green light (permission), evergreen.
Green is strongly associated with nature, health, and environmentalism. In traffic lights, green means 'go'. 'Going green' means becoming more environmentally friendly. Green is also associated with luck in Irish culture (shamrocks).
Example Sentences
"The leaves on the tree are green."
🌎 "Las hojas del árbol son verdes."
"They have a beautiful, green lawn."
🌎 "Tienen un césped verde hermoso."
Fill in the Blank 🇬🇧 English
The leaves on the tree are ___.
Practice Quiz
1. What colour is grass?
2. 'A green light' means: