Colors & Appearance in Italian

This lesson will teach you to describe the colors and appearance of people and things in Italian. Learn to express whether something is big or small, red or green, beautiful of ugly.

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Colors
Appearance & attributes
Questions & phrases
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Colors

	English	Italian	Pronunciation (Audio)
	light / clear	Luce chiaro
	dark	scuro
	color	colore
	colored	colorato
	white	bianco
	black	nero
	yellow	giallo
	orange	arancione
	red	rosso
	pink	rosa
	violet	viola
	blue	blu
	green	verde
	brown	marrone
	grey	grigio

Appearance & attributes

	English	Italian	Pronunciation (Audio)
	new	nuovo
	old	vecchio
	small	piccolo
	large / big	grande ampio
	young	giovane
	kind / pleasant	gentile piacevole
	unkind / unpleasant	scortese spiacevole
	patient	paziente
	tall (When talking about people)	alto
	middle sized (When talking about people)	di taglia media
	small (When talking about people)	piccolo
	fat	grasso
	thin / slim	sottile magro
	nice / pretty	carino bello
	beautiful	bello
	ugly	brutto
	ill / sick	ammalato malato
	healthy	sano
	happy / cheerful	felice allegro
	sad	triste
	sporty	sportivo
	ambitioned	ambito
	intelligent	intelligente
	creative	creativo
	active	attivo
	sentimental	sentimentale
	rational	razionale
	emotional	emotivo
	natural	naturale
	romantic	romantico
	nice / amiable	gentile amabile
	spontaneous	spontaneo
	energetic	energetico
	stressed (out)	ansioso
	relaxed	rilassato
	frustrated	frustrato
	talented	talentuoso

Questions & phrases

	English	Italian	Pronunciation (Audio)
	What does he look like?	A cosa assomiglia?
	What does she look like?	A cosa assomiglia?
	What is he like?	Com'è lui?
	What is she like?	Com'è Lei?

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