On this page you will find the name of the color in English, the transcription for correct reading, as well as the translation in pictures for children.
In addition, here you will find interesting facts about all the colors of the rainbow.
Orange Facts
The word "orange" literally means "orange" 🍊 and is borrowed from the Indo-Iranian languages, rather from the Persian “naranj” to Europe, and through Europe to Russia 🇷🇺.
Associatively, orange is the warmest shade of the spectrum 🌈; it is believed that it does not have cold shades.
Derived shades of orange (terracotta, red, golden beige, chocolate brown) stimulate appetite 🍕☕.
Yellow facts
Yellow is the color of the sun ☀. Symbolizes wealth 💰, light, vigor. Color effectively stimulates brain activity. Promotes concentration and clarity of thoughts. Cheers up 😃.
Soft yellow light is believed to be good for vision 👁. So it is good for the eyes 👁 to look at the setting sun 🎨 and fire 🔥.
❗ Yellow was Van Gogh's favorite color🎨. The whole gamut of yellow was present on his canvases.
❗The writer Gorky called New York the city of the “Yellow Dragon” 🐉 because of the eternal bustle and constant pursuit of money 💰
The human eye is known to be the best at distinguishing shades
it is green. 🌳
In many languages, green and blue-green (or even blue with them)
Is one color.
Since green is associated with new growth 🌱, in many languages it means young and immature. Sometimes with the added meaning of inexperience. In Russian, this expression is "young-green".
Green in some languages is associated with envy (green with envy), and in some - with longing and stagnation (green with longing, green longing).
In Chinese 🇨🇳 slang, “wearing a green hat” 👒 means roughly the same as “walking with pointed horns” 🐐 in Russian 😄.
Blue, blue in English
Blue Facts
Blue is the color of eternity, calmness and satisfaction 👼. Of all the colors, 🎨 blue is the most commonly associated with the concept of beauty 🌅. Color is associated with the sky and the sea 🌊. It is sometimes called azure.
In color therapy, blue is used to relieve fatigue and tension. Doctors say that blue is able to relieve insomnia and headaches. Nutritionists respect blue for its ability to reduce appetite.
And also the color blue makes you want to work and study 🤓 🤓 🤓
Purple, purple in English
The word brown in Russian is from the word "cinnamon", which, in turn, is from the word bark. And the word brown, if you believe the dictionaries, comes from the Turkic "kara", which means black. 🙂
For many centuries, brown, like gray, was associated with the poor, but gradually the situation began to change - already in the Victorian era 👑 the color was quite common in clothes, most likely due to its practicality and restraint.
In Japan 🇯🇵 one of the shades of brown (sumach) was the most important forbidden color ⛔, clothes of this color were worn by the emperor 👑 once in his life, no one else had the right to wear clothes dyed in sumach.
Interestingly, brown is the most common eye color 👀 in humans.
Associatively, almost all people consider white to be cold or cool ❄❄❄. However, white visually expands objects.
As you know, the dress of the bride 👰 in Europe is white, and why it so happened is told in a legend.
The most famous and widespread is that white is a symbol of the purity and innocence of the girl who is getting married.
The ancient Greeks believed that if you sleep in white, you will have good dreams 😪.
And finally, a cheat sheet - Colors in English with translation. I hope it helps you learn colors in English!
Have you ever wondered how many colors and shades exist in nature? More than 10 million. A lot, right? And all because absolutely all objects and objects around us have a certain color. Colors can be cold ( cool), warm ( warm) and neutral ( neutral), saturated ( vibrant, intense) and blurry ( dithered).
In English, as well as in Russian, there are several primary colors ( colors – BrE / colors – AmE) and many shades ( shades).
Let's consider the primary colors using the color wheel as an example ( a color wheel).
The color wheel provides, as a rule, 12 basic colors in addition to 3 neutral - white ( white), black ( black) and gray ( gray – BrE / gray – AmE).
The circle is based on just three primary ( primary) colors - red, yellow and blue, which, in turn, form three secondary ( secondary): green, orange and purple. By mixing the primary and secondary colors create six more tertiary ( tertiary) options.
The elements of the circle can be well combined with each other, forming the so-called color harmonies ( color harmonies).
| Word | Translation |
|---|---|
| red | Red |
| orange | Orange |
| brown | Brown |
| beige | beige |
| yellow | yellow |
| light-green | light green |
| green | green |
| cyan / light-blue | blue |
| blue-green | aqua (blue-green) |
| blue / dark-blue | blue |
| violet/purple | purple |
| pink / light-magenta | pink / crimson |
Please note: the specified colors ( light-magenta, dark-blue etc.) are written with a hyphen when they come before a noun, that is, when we use them to characterize a noun: a dark-blue suit(dark blue suit). If the name of the color does not come before the noun, we write it without a hyphen: This suit is dark blue(This suit is dark blue).
You can learn more about mixing and creating colors, as well as the colors of the rainbow in English in this educational video:
Earlier we mentioned warm and cold colors. Why are they called that? It's simple: warm colors and shades are quite lively, bright ( vivid and bright), filling with energy ( energetic). Cool colors create a sense of calm and serenity ( give calm and soothing impression). Lighter shades of both warm and cold colors visually expand the space ( advance in space).
Each primary color is distinguished by countless tones, midtones and shades, referred to as a common word. hues... There are several concepts for their designation in English: a tint, a tone and a shade.
Tones called tints, are formed by adding white to a pure shade ( a hue):
If you add gray to the pure color, you get a tone:
And adding black to the pure color, we get a shade:
Many shades and tones in English have fairly simple names, formed by adding words to the prevailing color light- / pale- (for light shades) and dark- / deep- (for dark):
- pale-pink- pale pink;
- light-brown- light brown;
- dark-gray- dark grey;
- deep-red- burgundy, dark red.
Also, a number of shade names are formed by "adding" two colors that form them:
- red-orange- red-orange;
- yellow-green- greenish yellow, color of young foliage;
- blue-violet- blue-violet, indigo.
However, there are much more interesting variants of names. Here are examples of some of them:
| Word | Translation |
|---|---|
| turquoise | turquoise |
| lilac | purple |
| maroon | maroon, chestnut |
| carnation | hot pink |
| eggplant | eggplant, deep purple |
| poppy red | coral |
| coquelicot | scarlet, "poppy" |
| scarlet | crimson red |
| vermillion | cinnabar, matte red |
| cerise | light cherry |
| honeydew | honey |
| charcoal | dark gray, charcoal |
| taupe | gray-brown |
| teal | deep blue-green color |
| copper | copper |
| bronze | bronze |
| silver | silver |
| gold | golden |
| crimson/garnet | Dark red |
| tawny | dark yellow |
| orangey | light orange |
| fallow | light yellow |
| chlorine | light green |
| azure | azure |
| burgundy | burgundy |
| indigo | indigo |
Quite a lot of shades get their name due to the similarity with the color of phenomena and representatives of flora and fauna existing in nature:
| Word | Translation |
|---|---|
| apricot | apricot |
| olive | olive (dark yellowish green) |
| plum | plum |
| peacock | deep blue (literally - peacock color) |
| mustard | mustard |
| canary | bright yellow (literally - canary) |
| lavender | lavender (light purple) |
| salmon | salmon (coral pink) |
| chocolate | chocolate |
| denim blue | denim blue |
In continuation of our topic, it is impossible not to mention drawing, since colors are often associated with paints. In fairness, it should be noted that the verb "to draw" in English can be translated as to draw and to paint.
Verb to draw used for sketching and sketchy enough drawing in one color, for example, with a simple pencil ( a pencil) or ink ( ink / writing ink).
Verb to paint it means “paint with paints”, “paint”. In this case, the drawing can be done in watercolor ( watercolor – BrE / watercolor – AmE), gouache ( gouache), oil ( oil), acrylic ( acryl), felt-tip pens ( felt pens), colored handles ( colorful pens), pencils ( pencils), paints ( paints) or even crayons ( colored / colored chalks).
The names of colors have even penetrated into stable combinations (idioms) and are often used by native speakers of English not only in everyday speech, but also in business speech. Therefore, for dessert, we have prepared for you some interesting phrases with the names of different colors:
| Expression | Translation |
|---|---|
| red tape | complicated process of paperwork (in other words, bureaucracy, excessive formalism) |
| a red flag | alarm or symptom, cause for doubt |
| out of the blue | unexpectedly, completely unexpectedly (like a bolt from the blue, like snow on your head) |
| a bluestocking | Blue stocking, pedant woman |
| a blue collar | production worker (blue collar) |
| a white collar | clerk, office worker ("white collar") |
| the silver screen | film industry, cinematography |
| a pink slip | notice of dismissal |
| a yellow streak | fearfulness, cowardice |
| a black sheep | black sheep |
| once in a blue moon | once every hundred years, very rarely |
| the pot calling the kettle black | whose cow would moan, and yours would be silent |
| to blackmail | blackmail, extort money |
| to blacklist | blacklist |
| to be browned off | be fed up, be irritated |
| to be tickled pink | to be happy like an elephant, to be incredibly happy |
| to be as white as a sheet | be white as chalk (or as white) |
| to be green with envy | turn green with envy |
| to give the green light | give the go-ahead, approve anything |
| to catch somebody red-handed | catch someone red-handed |
| to talk a blue streak | talk incessantly, jabber |
| to see red | go crazy, get furious |
| to be in the red | to be in debt |
| to be in black book | be out of favor, in bad standing |
| to be green about the gills | look unhealthy |
| to be in the pink | be in good health, bloom and smell |
From the first days of a child's life, a colorful world opens up for him, although several years must pass for a child to distinguish colors in more detail and assimilate their names. With the right approach of parents to this matter, this task is quite doable, even if it is about mastering colors in a foreign language.
Most children from 2-3 years of age distinguish colors and know their names, but sometimes this ability can come to a later age - by 4-5 years. The fact that adults do not see the results of their work on mastering the names of flowers by a child should not deprive the child of the thirst for knowledge of the colorful world. The explanation for this can be found in the effect imprinting- the ability to assimilate a large amount of information in the early stages of development without making any effort to this. It follows that by surrounding the child with useful information (in this case, bright pictures with the names of certain colors, or repeating their names daily or at intervals with the child in a playful way), you contribute to its involuntary assimilation.
Children can see the difference in the color of objects. However, matching a color to its name can be difficult for a child. The help of adults will make this task easier, because the names of flowers are common vocabulary, regardless of age. Correct pronunciation of the color name for adults and control over the pronunciation of the child is very important, because retraining is more difficult than teaching correctly.
The word "color" in English is " color"([ˈKʌlə] - [ˈkale] (British English)) and" color"(American version).
- Black - - [black] - black;
- Bluе - - [blu:] - blue;
- Brown - - [brown] - brown;
- Green - - [gri: n] - green;
- Orange - [ɔrɪndʒ] - [orange] - orange;
- Pink - - [pink] - pink;
- Purple - - [ash] - purple;
- Red - - [red] - red;
- White - - [white] - white;
- Yellow - - [elow] - yellow.
[:] - long sound
Russian transcription conveys the approximate pronunciation of the word!
Visual support (visual material - pictures, drawings, posters) will help you quickly learn the names of colors. Modern techniques suggest showing pictures with color and its writing.
Thus, visibility will simplify the process of mastering the name of a color by a child, namely, the ratio of its spelling and pronunciation.
For example, you can use the following set of cards while working:
The table shows the main colors. If their assimilation did not cause difficulties, you can additionally learn the names of shades of the basic color palette.
You can also introduce the child to the division of colors into warm and cold in this way: the sun is yellow and when it shines, we feel warm, which means yellow is warm; and in winter it snows from dark gray and blue clouds and we are cold, which means that blue and gray are cold colors.
Option for working on color names
- Show your child a picture or object of a certain color by pronouncing its name in English.
- Ask your child to repeat the name of the color.
- Ask your child to list items of this color in the room or outside the window (in Russian).
- Repeat the name of the color again.
- In the same way, work on the names of 2-3 colors (you can take more colors if you are sure that the child will learn their names).
- Offer your child some color cards with the aim of choosing a color card for him, which you name in English.
- Lay out some bright objects and ask the child to choose an object of the color you named.
- Show your child a picture or object and ask what color it is.
What's the best way to learn about colors?
There is no unequivocal answer to this question, since all people can be conditionally divided into the following types:
- Visuals - better perceive information through the organs of vision.
- Audials are those who better perceive information with the help of the hearing organs.
- Kinesthetics are people who assimilate the maximum amount of information with the help of other senses (smell, touch ...).
- Discretes are those who assimilate information by constructing logical arguments (through logical comprehension).
That is why the forms of learning colors are different for each child! If you are dealing with a group of students, then you should combine and alternate different types and forms of work.
Learning colors in a playful way
The most popular game for learning English is "Matching", which in the Russian version is called "Pick up a pair"... There are a huge number of options for this game, in the process you can change the conditions and adjust the task. The simplest version of the Matching game is to place 2 sets of cards on the table. One set with words (for example, red, green, black, pink ...), and the second set of cards with circles of different colors. The child should cover the card with the word with the card with the desired color with a circle. There are many variations of the game, but the goal is to pair correctly.
For children who still cannot read, you can find other games. If the child is mobile, then you can play a game "Jumping gallop"... Conditions of play: the kid names his favorite color. A parent or teacher lists any colors, and when the favorite color is pronounced, the child should jump as high as possible.
Online games are very popular, which will help to make the learning process brighter and more varied. A collection of such games can be found on the website: http://english4kids.russianblogger.ru/category/english_beginner/english_colors.
Instructional videos
Children are very fond of cartoons and all kinds of colorful videos. The use of such videos makes learning an enjoyable and rewarding experience for the child. There is nothing better than studying with your favorite characters:
Learning colors with Peppa Pig:
Learn colors in English with Luntik
Funny Songs - Color Song
It is important not only to watch a video or listen to a song with a child, but also to learn the basic words on the topic.
Exercises for learning colors
Linguists have developed a large number of exercises for easy assimilation of the names of colors by children. Recently, this kind of material has been in great demand among teachers and parents, since English is one of the most widespread languages in the world. Exercises for memorizing color in English are varied, taking into account the direct connection with the skills of speech recognition by ear (listening), building logical chains, and improving writing skills.
Coloring pictures by your child is one of the most powerful and fun ways to learn the names of flowers in English.
Option for working with coloring:
- Name the color you want to paint over part of the image in English.
- An alternative is online coloring pages in English, most often such exercises are found in the games sections in English.
Another type of exercise for children is a recipe well known to many. Here you can write the name of the color in English and color the objects.
It is helpful to reinforce what you have previously learned with written or oral exercises. For example, you can ask your child the following questions:
- What is it? (What is this?) - It is a cat! (It's a cat!) What color is the cat? (What color is the cat?) - It is white (She is white).
- What is it? (What is this?) - It is a ball! (It's a ball!) What color is the ball? (What color is the ball?) - It is red.
Many children like to guess riddles, such a hobby can easily be turned into a useful exercise. For example,
- This color warms the whole world and it is called ... red!
- I remember forever: black in English is black.
It will be easier to remember colors in English if you solve a crossword puzzle.
How to quickly memorize colors in English?
- Repeat color names regularly.
- Surround the child with information related to flowers.
- Focus on color - at home, while walking, when dressing a child.
- Do different types of exercises for all types of memory (visual, auditory, tactile ...).
- Turn the learning process into a game. The child will better assimilate information if it is presented in a playful way.
English female names
Every hunter wants to know where the pheasant is sitting. And every knowledge hunter wants to knowall colors and shades in Englishto describe the natural beauties that come his way. After all, how sometimes you want to say something like: "Look at this golden sunset, dissolving behind the pale green and blue hills, throwing the last crimson flashes on them ..." To say in English. But a sigh escapes from my chest and the phrase "The sky is beautiful". Maybe you already know the basiccolors in english, but let's take a deeper look at this question.
The colors of the rainbow spectrum in English
Run Off You Girls, Boys In View! (Run, girls, boys are coming! ) It - one of the special phrases used to memorize a sequence color of s in English. Here is another such "memory":R ichardO fY orkG aveB attleI nV ain (Richard of York gave the battle in vain). Let's walk through the spectrum.
Colors in English with transcription and translation:
So we have already met with cultural differences: a little confusion with the blue color and incomprehensible for Russian speakers "indigo".
Newton came up with the idea of including indigo in the rainbow. He took as a basis the idea that since there are seven musical notes, the colors of the rainbow must also be seven.Indigo- it is a deep deep blue tending towards red. Note that the stress in the English word should be on the first syllable, and not on the second, as in Russian. Previously, the pigment for indigo paint was obtained from the plant of the same name in India, therefore this color is also called "indian blue ».
Why are "blue" and "cyan" designated the same? "Blue "- what color is thisin fact? Answer: and blue and blue. English does not have separate words for light blue and dark blue.
Blue color translation in english like light blue (light- light).
Color, shade and tint
"Color" in English - color (in the American version it is written color).The word will be easy to remember if you have ever done a renovation. You may remember that a special pigment is sold in hardware stores, which is called a color scheme, the mixture is tinted with it, that is, they create exactly the paint that you need.
While in Russian we use one word to denote a variety of the same color -"Shade" in Englishit can be expressed in two words- tint and shade... The difference is that tint- this is the shade that is obtained by adding white to the base color, and shade- black. That is, in the case of tint, the paint will turn out to be lighter, more pastel, while shade gives depth.
The table above does not include the names of many colors, which, nevertheless, are actively used in everyday speech.
Frequently usedEnglish colors with translation into Russian:
Black: what color is it?Of course, black. In English, like in our native language, he is associated with something bad, evil. For example, to a person who did something nasty to you, you can say: “Your soul is as black as night "(Your soul is black as night).
And here black sheep (black sheep) - this is not necessarily someone bad, but the attitude towards him, to put it mildly, is not very good.Black sheep - this is an idiom describing an outcast, a "black sheep", a person who is not accepted by the environment:
I "m theblack sheepof the family because I get bad grades.
To blackmail - another word with a negative connotation, which includesblack... It means: blackmail someone, get money by threatening something.
My ex-boyfriendblackmailedme (my ex-boyfriend blackmailed me).
Whether it's the case white , what color hope, kindness and purity! Even a lie if it's white- white lie - not so scary, a kind of "lie to save", so as not to upset the interlocutor, or even a compliment:
You look… erm… good in this dress! - Oh please, don’t tell white lies! (You look ... uh ... good in this dress! - Oh please, don't deceive / console me!)
Speaking of emotional content, it should be mentioned that the word "white" can describe fear. A frightened person looks pale, that's why in Russian there are such expressions as “turn white with fear”, “white as a sheet”. In English, there is an idiom: “white as a sheet " (white as a sheet).
Although a suddenly frightened person looks "white as a sheet"constantlyfearful, cowardly person- this is yellow-bellied man. Literally, he has a "yellow belly" (belly- belly).
What color do you think is used to describe someone who is angry? What about an embarrassed person whose face rushes with blood from shame? Of course this Colour - red, and englishthe language has in its arsenal such expressions as “red in the face " and " to get (be, turn) red ". Analyze examples:
He immediatelyturned red , and I knew he was embarrassed. (He immediately blushed and I knew he was embarrassed)
Olga turnedred in the face with anger. (Olga blushed with anger).
Pink used when talking about health and wellness. One song has the words:
Enjoy yourself
While you’re stillin the pink
(Have fun while your health allows).
In the pink means in good shape, young, healthy. This is a direct association with skin color.
To be tickled pink - "to be delighted", "to be very pleased." Literally, this idiom translates as "to be tickled to pink."
I wastickled pink to meet my favorite singer. (I was delighted to meet my favorite singer).
As for green, it is the color of envy and jealousy. In English, you can "turn green with envy"- to be / turn green with envy.
Also, when yougreen, it means that you are a beginner in something, you do not have enough experience. Russian also has this meaning for green:young- green O.
But green is also the color of opportunities and respect for nature.
To give the green light (to give the green light) means to approve something, to give an opportunity to do something.
Green economy - it is an environmentally friendly economy.
Recycling is an important part of green economy (Recycling - this is an important part of the green » economy).
Now about blue in English.Blue - color of sadness and sad music calledblues... It is curious that not long ago in the Russian language blue was not emotionally colored, well, blue and blue, the color of the sky and the sea, what is there to be sad about? But we got the song "Color of Mood- blue ”, and this phrase spread by hashtags throughout the Internet space. Now we, too, can proudly declare that we have our own understanding of the color blue as a mood.
- Why are youfeeling blue , Masha?
- I haven’t been learning English lately.
- Why are you sad, Masha?
- I recently gave up English.
Emotionally charged and the wordgray: to What color , if not gray, will it express boredom, longing, rainy weather and a bad mood?
Gray day- gloomy day
And also gray - it is gray-haired. Gray hair- grey hair.
There are two possible spellings:gray and gray... The former is more common in the United States, the latter- in other English-speaking countries.
Color subtleties: shades, gradations, multicolor
Imagine holding a piece of amber in your hands. It shimmers in different shades and it's hard to tell orange or yellow, whichever color prevails. In Russian we say: yellow-orange, i.e. add-Oand we write the second part through a hyphen. In English, add the suffix-ish:
Yellowish orange - yellowish orange.
Amber is yellowish-orange. (Amber is yellowish orange).
Exceptions:
- the word reddish doubles the letter d
- black (black)- does not change
By the way, the very word “ amber "- also color, its translation- amber. Although, rather, it is a shade.
The analogue of our Russian "black and white" will be "black and white". As you can see, the conjunction "and" is used, and the form of the words remains unchanged.
If you need to express gradation- the tone is lighter, darker or richer, words come to the rescuelight (light), dark (dark) and bright (bright). For example, light pink - Colour lighter than pink, white-pink.
Dull - dull, boring;
Pale - pale.
Colors and shades in English, as in many other languages, often come from the names of plants, stones, metals, everything that surrounds us. Coloursilver - it is "silver"golden - "golden", lilac color in english will " lilac ", Like the corresponding plant, andplum - Colour plum because plum- this is the plum.
More examples of natural shades:
Most likely, you yourself will guess the meaning if you meet colors, translation which matches the names of plants and other natural materials.
For example, purple color translation in english like violet , which coincides with the name of the plant (violet). True, "violet" is not used as often as the common "purple". People without specific knowledge of colors will name any shade between blue and red that way. They can say "bluish purple" or "pinkish purple" if they want to go into more detail.
Perception of colors- thing is subjective. There is an old rhyme that says violets are ... blue!
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Sugar is sweet
So are you.
(Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, just like you)
The author sins a little against the truth, becauseviolets are violet, or purple... The problem is it doesn't rhyme as well asblueso the violets turned blue.
Or you can use the first lines of this poem to say something obvious, like:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I enjoy learning English
And I hope so do you.
Every hunter wants to know where the pheasant is sitting. And every knowledge hunter wants to knowall colors and shades in Englishto describe the natural beauties that come his way. After all, how sometimes you want to say something like: "Look at this golden sunset, dissolving behind the pale green and blue hills, throwing the last crimson flashes on them ..." To say in English. But a sigh escapes from my chest and the phrase "The sky is beautiful". Maybe you already know the basiccolors in english, but let's take a deeper look at this question.
The colors of the rainbow spectrum in English
Run Off You Girls, Boys In View! (Run, girls, boys are coming! ) It - one of the special phrases used to memorize a sequence color of s in English. Here is another such "memory":R ichardO fY orkG aveB attleI nV ain (Richard of York gave the battle in vain). Let's walk through the spectrum.
Colors in English with transcription and translation:
So we have already met with cultural differences: a little confusion with the blue color and incomprehensible for Russian speakers "indigo".
Newton came up with the idea of including indigo in the rainbow. He took as a basis the idea that since there are seven musical notes, the colors of the rainbow must also be seven.Indigo- it is a deep deep blue tending towards red. Note that the stress in the English word should be on the first syllable, and not on the second, as in Russian. Previously, the pigment for indigo paint was obtained from the plant of the same name in India, therefore this color is also called "indian blue ».
Why are "blue" and "cyan" designated the same? "Blue "- what color is thisin fact? Answer: and blue and blue. English does not have separate words for light blue and dark blue.
Blue color translation in english like light blue (light- light).
Color, shade and tint
"Color" in English - color (in the American version it is written color).The word will be easy to remember if you have ever done a renovation. You may remember that a special pigment is sold in hardware stores, which is called a color scheme, the mixture is tinted with it, that is, they create exactly the paint that you need.
While in Russian we use one word to denote a variety of the same color -"Shade" in Englishit can be expressed in two words- tint and shade... The difference is that tint- this is the shade that is obtained by adding white to the base color, and shade- black. That is, in the case of tint, the paint will turn out to be lighter, more pastel, while shade gives depth.
The table above does not include the names of many colors, which, nevertheless, are actively used in everyday speech.
Frequently usedEnglish colors with translation into Russian:
Black: what color is it?Of course, black. In English, like in our native language, he is associated with something bad, evil. For example, to a person who did something nasty to you, you can say: “Your soul is as black as night "(Your soul is black as night).
And here black sheep (black sheep) - this is not necessarily someone bad, but the attitude towards him, to put it mildly, is not very good.Black sheep - this is an idiom describing an outcast, a "black sheep", a person who is not accepted by the environment:
I "m theblack sheepof the family because I get bad grades.
To blackmail - another word with a negative connotation, which includesblack... It means: blackmail someone, get money by threatening something.
My ex-boyfriendblackmailedme (my ex-boyfriend blackmailed me).
Whether it's the case white , what color hope, kindness and purity! Even a lie if it's white- white lie - not so scary, a kind of "lie to save", so as not to upset the interlocutor, or even a compliment:
You look… erm… good in this dress! - Oh please, don’t tell white lies! (You look ... uh ... good in this dress! - Oh please, don't deceive / console me!)
Speaking of emotional content, it should be mentioned that the word "white" can describe fear. A frightened person looks pale, that's why in Russian there are such expressions as “turn white with fear”, “white as a sheet”. In English, there is an idiom: “white as a sheet " (white as a sheet).
Although a suddenly frightened person looks "white as a sheet"constantlyfearful, cowardly person- this is yellow-bellied man. Literally, he has a "yellow belly" (belly- belly).
What color do you think is used to describe someone who is angry? What about an embarrassed person whose face rushes with blood from shame? Of course this Colour - red, and englishthe language has in its arsenal such expressions as “red in the face " and " to get (be, turn) red ". Analyze examples:
He immediatelyturned red , and I knew he was embarrassed. (He immediately blushed and I knew he was embarrassed)
Olga turnedred in the face with anger. (Olga blushed with anger).
Pink used when talking about health and wellness. One song has the words:
Enjoy yourself
While you’re stillin the pink
(Have fun while your health allows).
In the pink means in good shape, young, healthy. This is a direct association with skin color.
To be tickled pink - "to be delighted", "to be very pleased." Literally, this idiom translates as "to be tickled to pink."
I wastickled pink to meet my favorite singer. (I was delighted to meet my favorite singer).
As for green, it is the color of envy and jealousy. In English, you can "turn green with envy"- to be / turn green with envy.
Also, when yougreen, it means that you are a beginner in something, you do not have enough experience. Russian also has this meaning for green:young- green O.
But green is also the color of opportunities and respect for nature.
To give the green light (to give the green light) means to approve something, to give an opportunity to do something.
Green economy - it is an environmentally friendly economy.
Recycling is an important part of green economy (Recycling - this is an important part of the green » economy).
Now about blue in English.Blue - color of sadness and sad music calledblues... It is curious that not long ago in the Russian language blue was not emotionally colored, well, blue and blue, the color of the sky and the sea, what is there to be sad about? But we got the song "Color of Mood- blue ”, and this phrase spread by hashtags throughout the Internet space. Now we, too, can proudly declare that we have our own understanding of the color blue as a mood.
- Why are youfeeling blue , Masha?
- I haven’t been learning English lately.
- Why are you sad, Masha?
- I recently gave up English.
Emotionally charged and the wordgray: to What color , if not gray, will it express boredom, longing, rainy weather and a bad mood?
Gray day- gloomy day
And also gray - it is gray-haired. Gray hair- grey hair.
There are two possible spellings:gray and gray... The former is more common in the United States, the latter- in other English-speaking countries.
Color subtleties: shades, gradations, multicolor
Imagine holding a piece of amber in your hands. It shimmers in different shades and it's hard to tell orange or yellow, whichever color prevails. In Russian we say: yellow-orange, i.e. add-Oand we write the second part through a hyphen. In English, add the suffix-ish:
Yellowish orange - yellowish orange.
Amber is yellowish-orange. (Amber is yellowish orange).
Exceptions:
- the word reddish doubles the letter d
- black (black)- does not change
By the way, the very word “ amber "- also color, its translation- amber. Although, rather, it is a shade.
The analogue of our Russian "black and white" will be "black and white". As you can see, the conjunction "and" is used, and the form of the words remains unchanged.
If you need to express gradation- the tone is lighter, darker or richer, words come to the rescuelight (light), dark (dark) and bright (bright). For example, light pink - Colour lighter than pink, white-pink.
Dull - dull, boring;
Pale - pale.
Colors and shades in English, as in many other languages, often come from the names of plants, stones, metals, everything that surrounds us. Coloursilver - it is "silver"golden - "golden", lilac color in english will " lilac ", Like the corresponding plant, andplum - Colour plum because plum- this is the plum.
More examples of natural shades:
Most likely, you yourself will guess the meaning if you meet colors, translation which matches the names of plants and other natural materials.
For example, purple color translation in english like violet , which coincides with the name of the plant (violet). True, "violet" is not used as often as the common "purple". People without specific knowledge of colors will name any shade between blue and red that way. They can say "bluish purple" or "pinkish purple" if they want to go into more detail.
Perception of colors- thing is subjective. There is an old rhyme that says violets are ... blue!
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Sugar is sweet
So are you.
(Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, just like you)
The author sins a little against the truth, becauseviolets are violet, or purple... The problem is it doesn't rhyme as well asblueso the violets turned blue.
Or you can use the first lines of this poem to say something obvious, like:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I enjoy learning English
And I hope so do you.
