Do you know your ‘glas’ from your ‘gorm’, or your ‘dearg’ from your ‘dubh’? Kids will love to learn their colours in Irish and then practice with colour activities like colouring, sorting or our fun rainbow scavenger hunt done through Irish!
Irish has seen a huge surge in popularity around the world – and it’s always fun for kids to have a few tricks up their sleeve. Counting to ten, days of the week, or the rainbow wheel of colours to recite!
Learn the Colours in Irish
With unique pronunciations and grammatical rules, Irish is certainly a language like no other! While many languages have elements of similarity, for example Spanish and Italian, Irish doesn’t fit that bill at all. Take a look at the list of colours in Irish below and you’ll see what we mean!
Red = dearg
Orange = oráiste
Yellow = buí
Green = glas
Blue = gorm
Pink = bándearg
Purple = corcra
Brown = donn
Black = dubh
Grey = liath
White = bán
If you loved learning the colours in Irish, why not try some more fantastic Irish words and phrases that are perfect for beginners or anyone needing a refresher.
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