Colors and their names in Russian and English with photo

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

What would happen if there were no flowers in our life? No matter how dull and boring the world would seem, if every day multi-colored spots did not flash before our eyes. No matter how uninteresting it was to live in the world, one can only guess, because we have such an opportunity to enjoy a huge number of a wide variety of shades. Now even the most erudite and developed person will not be able to list all the colors of the world and their names, because there are now a huge number of them. Where do they come from? Naturally, from nature, without it we would not have such a huge amount of colors. However, it is worth noting that there are colors that you simply cannot find in nature, they are obtained either by mixing, or using a computer and modern programs.

The meaning of color in life

As much as it may sound, colors have a huge impact on us throughout the day. For example, sometimes it happens that fatigue overtakes us in the morning, so we subconsciously choose the color that will cheer us up a little. For example, orange, red or green. You don't need to know colors to do this.and their names, one has only to understand that today it is better to wear something of a calmer color, or vice versa.

Specialists have found that people who are more sensitive to the colors of the world around them choose their wardrobe more carefully. Have you caught yourself wanting to buy clothes in the same color? This means that at that period of your life you lacked what this color symbolizes or carries. I wanted red - little love and passion, blue - calmness and wisdom, white - purity and truth.

But no matter how attentive we are to the environment and shades, all the colors and their names cannot be remembered, since there are more than 15 thousand of them in the world! But, alas, the average person can only distinguish 150 colors, and this is not because he has vision problems, this is due to the inability of his eye to perceive a large number of shades.

Basic colors and their names in English

It is known that shades are divided into several groups, one of them is basic. This means that every inhabitant of the planet knows these colors and their names, sees them several times a day. These include white, black and grey. In English, they are written as white, black and gray. Moreover, each of them has many additional meanings, for example, the adjective “black” can be used to characterize something bad, gloomy, while “gray” will help to say about a dull, cloudy day (grey day).

As for the word white, weused to use it as an adjective, but it can also be a verb meaning “whiten”, “make white”.

These colors are called basic, not because all the others are created from them, but because we learn them in childhood in the first place and distinguish them from any others.

Colors of the rainbow

Rainbow is, perhaps, a whole storehouse of colors and shades. It only seems to us that there are seven of them, because in the places of transition of one color to another, a new color appears. There is no doubt that the rainbow contains a large number of shades, only our vision is not perfect enough to recognize them. we can see these subtle shades only with a strong increase in the rainbow. However, you can read the well-known colors and their names below.

The adjective “red” is written in English as red, it can be used in any phrase where you want to focus on this particular color, for example, red rose. The next color is orange - orange. Also referred to as an orange. Orange is followed by yellow, then green, which sounds like green in English. Blue can be translated in different ways: either cyan, or more simply: sky blue (sky blue). The blue of the British almost does not differ from blue, apparently, their sensitivity to colors and shades is a little weak, so this color sounds like blue. The last color, purple, is called purple in English. The rainbow itself is rainbow.

Additional colors

Additional can be called such shades, which we alsowe use often, but still somewhat less often than basic or rainbow colors. Undoubtedly, all the colors of the world and their names in English cannot fit in one article, but you will find the most popular of them in it.

The word cream is translated as cream, cream, cream or foam. As a verb, it can be used in the role of "mix".

Gold is not just gold, but gold. This word can also be a noun, denoting gold in the meaning of we alth, nobility, value.

Chocolate - chocolate shade, chocolate. Slightly lighter than true brown, but non-professional people usually refer to the chocolate color simply as brown. Only the last one is spelled differently in English - brown.

Another shade of blue is cornflower blue. It is called cornflower blue, respectively, the first part of the name means "cornflower", and the second is already known to us blue.

Pink - pink, but if you want to say "hot pink", just add the prefix hot to the original word. This rule applies to all colors: hot-green, hot-yellow, etc.

Lime is another shade of green, it's lime, the color of lime.

The beautiful word emerald means an equally beautiful emerald color.

What to do when you need to describe a two-color item?

No matter how developed a person is, no matter how perfect modern computer programs are, people will never know all the colors of the world and their names. Photos from festivals of colors are probably the brightest picturesin the world. Various colors are mixed on them, it turns out yellow-green, white-blue, red-orange, etc.

And how to call two-color objects in English? As it turned out, everything is much easier when compared with Russian. To say "yellow-green" you just need to take the names of both colors and write with a hyphen, you get green-yellow. It’s the same with black and white, only you need to insert the preposition “and” between two words, it turns out black-and-white. We inserted the preposition because it is a stable expression.

Colors with pretty names

We can still recognize or guess all the colors of the world and their names in Russian, but there are a lot of colors in English with extremely unusual or simply beautiful names.

Dark indigo - dark indigo, if translated literally, for an ordinary person it is dark purple.

Violet-eggplant - eggplant color, closer to pink.

Pale magenta - magenta color.

Burgundy translates to "burgundy", although it's actually brownish red.

Vermilion - crimson color, in other words, red.

Amber- amber color.

Turquoise - turquoise, mint color.