Colour order

wendy s.C1Kwiziq community member

Colour order

Why does yellow come before blue even though they are the opposite way round in the English text?

This question relates to:French writing exercise "Back to School"

Freeform Writing Exercise A1

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CécileKwiziq team memberCorrect answer

Hi Wendy,

Both

bleu et jaune

and

jaune et bleu

are accepted in the exercise so take your pick, it is often a matter of preference.

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Maarten K.C1 Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

I doubt that you will find a grammatical reason, and there may be no real reasoning behind it in this instance. However, I think in French «jaune et bleu» sounds better when spoken than «bleu et jaune», because it avoids the vowel-vowel combination of «bleu et . . », and a French speaker may therefore naturally say and write it that way, regardless of the order of the words in English.

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Colour order

Why does yellow come before blue even though they are the opposite way round in the English text?

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