🇬🇧 Listen & Repeat (English)
adjective
A bright colour like blood or fire. Red is at the long wavelength end of the colour spectrum.
Pigmento rojo₁.
Adjective. Used before nouns: 'a red rose', or after verbs: 'the apple is red'. Comparative: redder. Common collocations: red wine, red light, red card (football), red tape (bureaucracy).
Red is one of the most emotionally powerful colours in English-speaking cultures. It signals danger (red light, red alert) but also love (red roses on Valentine's Day). 'Red tape' means unnecessary bureaucracy.
Example Sentences
"The wall and the door are red."
🌎 "La pared y la puerta son rojas."
"In autumn the leaves are red."
🌎 "En otoño las hojas son rojas."
Fill in the Blank 🇬🇧 English
The wall and the door are ___.
Practice Quiz
1. What colour is a rose often associated with love?
2. At a traffic light, red means: