Clothes and colours
Say what you wear, describe colours, try things on and pay for them.
- 9.1What to wearCoats, jackets, trousers and shoes, and putting them on.17 wordsreadinggrammar
- 9.2ColoursRed, blue and all the rest, light and dark, and how to ask what colour.16 wordsreadinggrammar
- 9.3Trying it onSizes, fitting rooms, too big and too small, this one or that one.14 wordsreadinggrammar
- 9.4At the tillPaying, discounts and exchanges, and him, her and them.14 wordsreadinggrammar
Can you do it?
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Grammar in this chapter
- Die Hose passt, pantalone su nove — Wearing, putting on and taking off, clothes counted as one or as a pair, and saying what fits and suits you.
- Welche Farbe? Koje boje? — Colours after is: German leaves them alone, Serbian makes them agree; and the question each language asks.
- Dieser, ovaj — This one, that one and which one, too big, and a few ready-made words for cheaper and bigger.
- Ich nehme ihn, uzimam ga — Me, you, him, her, it and them as objects, picked by the gender of the thing you mean.