Questions & Answers about Золотой цвет очень красивый.
How would I use the question word какой (what/which) to ask a question that this sentence answers?
To ask "Which color is very beautiful?", you would say: Какой цвет очень красивый? Because цвет (color) is a masculine noun, you must use the masculine question word какой. The descriptive words in our sentence, золотой and красивый, directly answer this question and also use masculine endings.
Why do the adjectives золотой and красивый have different endings if they are both masculine?
Russian has a couple of different endings for masculine adjectives. Красивый ends in -ый, which is the standard ending when the word's stress is not on the last syllable (kra-SI-vyy). Золотой ends in -ой, which is the required ending whenever the stress falls heavily on that very last syllable (za-la-TOY).
Where is the word for "is" in this sentence?
In Russian, the present tense verb "to be" (am/is/are) is almost always skipped. So instead of saying "The golden color is very beautiful", you simply place the subject and its description side-by-side: "Golden color very beautiful" (Золотой цвет очень красивый).
Does золотой mean the actual metal "gold" or just the color?