More colours Méi Faarwen
Go beyond the basic eight colours: orange, pink, purple, beige, gold and silver, and the word for colour itself.
By the end of this lesson you can
- Name more colours than the basic eight.
- Say what colour something is.
- Tell a dark colour from a light one.
- Understand colour words in front of a noun.
13 words and phrases
- d'Faarf
- colour Plural: d'Faarwen.
- orange
- orange
- rosa
- pink
- violett
- purple / violet
- beige
- beige
- hellblo
- light blue
- donkel
- dark
- gëllen
- golden
- sëlwer
- silver
- natierlech
- natural
- d'Hoerfaarf
- hair colour
- krank
- ill, sick
- verschidden
- different
Grammar
Saying what colour something is
After ass (is) the colour word stays as it is: rout, gréng, giel, brong, wäiss, schwaarz. The same goes for the new ones when you use them like this. You already know the basic eight from the family lesson.
- D'Luucht ass gréng, elo kënne mer iwwergoen. — The light is green, now we can cross.
- Den Dueder vum Ee ass giel. — The yolk of the egg is yellow.
- Meng natierlech Hoerfaarf ass brong. — My natural hair colour is brown.
- Dat krankt Kand ass wäiss ewéi en Duch. — The sick child is as white as a sheet.
A colour in front of a noun
In front of a noun a colour word often takes an ending, as other adjectives do. For now just recognise these forms when you read or hear them: beigë, orangë, donkele, sëlwere. hellblo is also seen with no ending at all.
- e beigë Reemantel — a beige raincoat
- en donkele Paltong — a dark coat
- e sëlwere Bracelet — a silver bracelet
- hellblo Aen — light blue eyes
d'Faarf, the word colour
d'Faarf is feminine, with the plural d'Faarwen. It also means paint, which is how the LOD uses it in many of its examples.
- Dee Rucksak gëtt et an dräi verschiddene Faarwen. — That rucksack comes in three different colours.
- Dës Faarf deckt gutt. — This paint covers well.
Practice
14 exercises: multiple choice, typing, matching pairs and word order.