dreamger.blogg.se - Different words for orange color

The goal of our project was to understand why cultures vary so much in their color word usage. So while English has 11 words that everyone knows, the Papua-New Guinean language Berinmo has only five, and the Bolivian Amazonian language Tsimane’ has only three words that everyone knows, corresponding to black, white and red. Nonindustrialized cultures typically have far fewer words for colors than industrialized cultures. Interestingly, the ways that languages categorize color vary widely. But this is still a tiny fraction of the colors that we can distinguish. Maybe if you’re an artist or an interior designer, you know specific meanings for as many as 50 or 100 different words for colors – like turquoise, amber, indigo or taupe. In an industrialized culture, most people get by with 11 color words: black, white, red, green, yellow, blue, brown, orange, pink, purple and gray. But human language categorizes these into a small set of words. This list will come in very handy for artists and professionals working in the fashion industry.People with standard vision can see millions of distinct colors. The following is an extensive list of lesser known and more specific colors.

un costume bleu claire a light-blue suit.

Notice that they aren’t hyphenated like in English.

The words clair and foncé can be added to colors mean light and dark, respectively.

une maison marron, des maisons marrons brown house, brown houses.

une chemise orange, des chemises orange orange shirt, orange shirts.

This means that they’re the same for all the forms. The colors marron (brown) and orange (orange) are invariable.

un chemisier jaune, une jupe jaune a yellow blouse, a yellow skirt.

Since it ends in an -e, both the masculine and feminine forms are the same. If a color ends in the letter -e in both the masculine and feminine forms, there’s nothing to change.

un panetlon noir, une chemise noire black pants, a black shirt.

un vélo vert, une voiture verte a green bike, a green car.

To make each of them feminine, simply add an -e. Our two examples are vert for green and noir for black. The following is an example of basic gender agreement for a color that ends in a consonant. If you want to say “white houses” you must say, des maisons blanches. French colors: Grammatical rules Gender agreement for colorsĪs colors are adjectives they must match the gender and number of the noun they’re describing.įor example, a white house is: une maison blanche.īlanche is the feminine singular form of white.