Word
O quarto cor-de-rosa é pequeno.
Meaning
The pink bedroom is small.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of O quarto cor-de-rosa é pequeno.
ser
to be
pequeno
small
o quarto
the bedroom / the room
cor-de-rosa
pink
Questions & Answers about O quarto cor-de-rosa é pequeno.
Why is the word for "pink" a three-word phrase?
Cor-de-rosa literally translates to "color of rose". In Portuguese, several colors are named by comparing them to things in nature and use this hyphenated structure.
If "quarto" is masculine, why does "cor-de-rosa" end in an "a"?
Unlike most adjectives, cor-de-rosa does not change to match the gender of the noun. Because it literally means "color of rose", the word rosa stays feminine, even when describing a masculine noun like quarto.
Why do we use é instead of está for "is"?
Why does the color come after the word for bedroom?
In English, we put the descriptive word before the noun ("pink bedroom"). In Portuguese, adjectives generally come after the noun they describe, so the structure here is quarto cor-de-rosa (bedroom pink).