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Fólkvangr
Fólkvangr
07:47
@Alan Evangelista: je trouve que vous abusez avec toutes vos questions cinématographiques : on n'est pas un service de traduction (traducteur interprète).
 
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Qàtrè
Qàtrè
11:44
🔎 Mes chaussures sont marron.
🔎 Il a les cheveux bruns.
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➡️ I have two questions:
1- Is "brun/brune" an colour adjective for hair, while "marron" is a colour adjective for other things?
2- Why does one use the single adjective "marron" in the first sentence?
 
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Luke Sawczak
Luke Sawczak
21:57
1) It's not strictly divided as such. "Marron" is less common in general.
But especially for hair, it seems...
books.google.com/ngrams/…
2) Some colours, especially those that are derived from objects, are invariable, as if they were short for "couleur de ___"
Interestingly, one does speak of hair as « châtain » (near-synonym of « marron »), suggesting that one collocation got fixed at some point for probably arbitrary reasons

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