Test your knowledge of German colors.
Testen Sie Ihr Wissen über deutsche Farben.
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Learn how to describe the colorful world around you in German.
Capitalization: When used as adjectives to describe something, colors are lowercase (das rote Auto - the red car). But if the color acts as a noun, it gets capitalized (Das Rot gefällt mir - I like the red).
Light and Dark: You can modify almost any color in German by putting hell- (light) or dunkel- (dark) in front of it (e.g., hellblau, dunkelrot).
| English | German |
|---|---|
| color | Farbe |
| red | rot |
| green | grün |
| blue | blau |
| yellow | gelb |
| black | schwarz |
| white | weiß |
| gray | grau |
| orange (color) | orange |
| brown | braun |
| pink | rosa |
| purple | lila / violett |
| light blue / sky blue | hellblau / himmelblau |
| beige | beige |
| gold | gold / golden |
| silver | silber / silbern |
| bronze | bronze |
| sky blue | himmelblau |
| cream | cremefarben |
| indigo | indigo |
| lilac | lila |
| olive | olivgrün |
| pearl | perlweiß |
| sand-colored | sandfarben |
| turquoise | türkis |
| amaranth | amaranthrot |
| dark blue | dunkelblau |
| light blue | hellblau |
| dark green | dunkelgrün |
| light green | hellgrün |
| dark red | dunkelrot |
| light red / pinkish | hellrot |
| dark gray | dunkelgrau |
| light gray | hellgrau |
| pitch black | pechschwarz |
| snow white | schneeweiß |