How to read purple in English. Color names in English for children

On this page you will find the name of the color in English, a transcription for correct reading, as well as a translation in pictures for children.

In addition, here you will find interesting facts about all the colors of the rainbow.

Facts about the color orange

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 🇷🇺 .

Associative orange is the warmest shade of the spectrum 🌈, it is believed that it has no cold shades.

Derived shades of orange (terracotta, red, golden beige, chocolate brown) stimulate the appetite 🍕☕.

Facts about yellow

Yellow is the color of the sun ☀. Symbolizes wealth 💰, light, cheerfulness. Color effectively stimulates brain activity. Promotes concentration and clarity of thought. It lifts the mood.
It is believed that soft yellow light has a good effect on vision 👁. So it is good for the eyes 👁 to look at the setting sun 🎨 and the 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 its inhabitants for money 💰

It is known that the human eye 👀 distinguishes shades best
exactly green. 🌳

In many languages, green and blue-green (or even blue along with them)
is one color.

Since green is associated with new growth 🌱, in many languages ​​it means young and immature. Sometimes with the added value of inexperience. In Russian, this expression is "young-green."

Green in some languages ​​is associated with envy (green with envy), and in some - with melancholy and stagnation (turned green with melancholy, melancholy is green).

In Chinese 🇨🇳 slang, “wearing a green hat” 👒 means about the same as “walking with horns set” 🐐 in Russian 😄.

Blue, English blue

Facts about blue

Blue is the color of eternity, peace and contentment. Of all the colors 🎨, blue is most often associated with the concept of beauty 🌅. The color is associated with the sky and the sea. Sometimes it is 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 because it can reduce appetite.

And the blue color 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, according to 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 (sumac) 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 sumac.

Interestingly, brown is the most common eye color 👀 in humans.

Associatively, almost all people consider white to be cold or cool ❄❄❄. However, white color visually expands objects.

As you know, the dress of the bride 👰 in Europe is white, and the legend tells why it happened this way.
The most famous and common is that white is a symbol of the purity and innocence of a girl entering into marriage.

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!

English is one of the most used languages ​​in the world. Today, there are about 400 million people for whom it is native. Just as many use it as a second language. When traveling, on business trips, or simply for reading special or fiction literature in the original, it is very useful to know English. It is necessary to study this or any other language from the very beginning, simple grammatical structures and the most frequently used words, in order to learn to understand the general theme of texts based on them - to start with the simplest, and then complex, special ones. Today let's expand our vocabulary and learn the topic "Colors in English". It is known that the main spectrum includes seven different color components, everything else is shades, however, knowing their names is also very important. After all, blue can be ultramarine, aquamarine, cornflower blue, and sapphire - all these words also have their lexical equivalents.

Basic colors in English

To begin with, it is useful to learn the basic colors - those that are included in the main rainbow spectrum, and some shades, the words are given with translation and transcription for correct reading. So let's remember:

White - white;

Gray - gray;

Black - black;

Silver - silver ["sɪlvə];

Brown - brown;

Red - red;

Orange - orange ["ɔrɪnʤ];

Pink - pink;

Yellow - yellow ["jeləu];

Golden - gold or golden or;

Blue - blue;

Green - green;

Purple - purple ["pɜ: pl];

Lilac - lilac ["laɪlək].

Shades are very important.

If you notice, blue and blue colors are called the same word in English, so using “blue” in the meaning of “blue”, it is best to clarify what kind of shade we are talking about. Having learned the proposed words, for a better understanding and explanation, for example, in a clothing store, which color you need, it is recommended to write down the names of the shades in the dictionary, because, you see, “coral” is far from red, and gray is not at all that “wet asphalt”. All these nuances of color definition in English have their own names:

Apricot - apricot color;

Ash - ash gray

Berry - berry;

Bronze - bronze or bronze;

Burgundy - burgundy

Charcoal - the color of charcoal;

Chocolate - brown with chocolate undertones

Cocoa - cocoa or cocoa color with milk;

Copper - copper;

Coral - coral shade of red;

Cream - creamy, creamy;

Denim blue - denim;

Dull - dull;

Emerald - emerald

Firebrick - brick red

Fuchsia - a shade of purple, fuchsia;

Garnet - deep dark red

Honeydew - the color of ripe melon, honey;

Indigo - a shade of blue, indigo;

Salmon - shade of orange, salmon

Sand - a shade of brown, sandy;

Snow - very pure white, snow-white;

Tanned - bronze

Urquoise - a shade of blue, turquoise;

Vinous - a shade of red, burgundy.

Briefly about the important

If you think that absolutely all colors in English are too difficult to remember, especially their shades, there is a little trick. It is enough to learn the main names, and then add the following adjectives to them:

Dark (dark);

Deep(dark);

Pale (pale);

Light (light).

And you can compose some of their shades without errors. For example, “dark blue” is a very dark blue, “deep red” is a dark red, rich blood color, “pale pink” is a desaturated pink, and “light brown” is a sandy brown, and so on. This simple rule will help, if necessary, more accurately convey the entire palette of colors. It's so easy to learn colors in English, and if necessary, the variety of their shades.

Hello dear user!

In this article, we will expand our stock of English words with such a frequently used topic as "".

It is clear that the description of any objects or phenomena without bright colors is boring and unimpressive. Therefore, you and I will learn or raise such a voluminous topic and expand our combinatorics for composing new English statements without undue stress.

First, let's think and remember: what colors do we use most often in Russian? Yes, there are not so many of them. Just a few things that we use without thinking in everyday speech: red, blue, yellow, green, black, white, gray, orange, brown, blue, purple, pink (maybe I didn’t add something).

We, as humans, have the right habit of simplifying things, and therefore we often do not need to complicate everything and say that, for example, this object is charcoal. Most likely we will say that this item is just "gray" and the maximum that can be added is the shade of this item and that's it!

The Anglo-American population is the same people as we are, and they also do not like to complicate anything, so it is enough to know only a certain base of colors, as well as shades. And to study this will not be a super task for us, because it is given even in the elementary grades of the school.

Colors in English

These colors should be known in the order of things. And it is also worth putting them into practice. As you saw in the "Example" column, we simply put our colors in front of the objects and got ready-made word combinations. So you can combine to more clearly express your thoughts.

For those who remember graphic information better, imagine English colors in graphic form:

You can also vary the colors themselves with or without the auxiliary union "and":

• Red-yellow - red and yellow;
• Black and white film - black and white movie;
• Yellow-green jacket - yellow-green jacket;

Shades in English

Plus, you can add a few shades to this for a more detailed description:

• Dark - dark. Example: dark red car (dark red car), dark green color (dark green color).
• Light - light. Example: light blue sky (blue sky), light brown pencil (light brown pencil).
• Pale - pale. Example: pale yellow leather (pale yellow skin), pale brown dye (pale brown paint).
• Bright - bright. Example: bright red blood (bright red blood), bright green absinth (light green absinthe).
• Deep - deep (meaning dark). Example: deep pink thing (dark pink thing), deep gray hair (dark gray hair).
• Dim - dim. Example: dim white light (dim white light), dim purple crystal (dim purple crystal).

This is the very basis that you should know in order to understand "what and how."

But also, for more advanced users, there are many more colors that can be used in English:

That's all I wanted to say on the topic " Colors and shades in English". Summing up, I would like to note that learning and memorizing all new colors can be good, but not so effective. Much more important is practice! It is enough to use them in a spoken language in order to develop a certain algorithm for combining combinations of “color + object” and then, after good practice, you will be able to use all this at the level of automatism without stress.

Hello kids, their parents, nannies and teachers!

I noticed a long time ago that along with numbers, children love to learn words for colors in English. Apparently, therefore, according to the well-known law "The more interesting, the faster", they remember such words with lightning speed!

If you don't believe us, let's check it out right now! And let's start with songs and videos, which, I'll tell you, are just an abundance on the Internet. But I have chosen the best ones for you! And she provided a dictionary with a translation of those without a single Russian word))

So, learning colors in English for kids is our goal today! Go...

balloon - balloon
bye-bye - bye-bye
say "bye-bye" to all the beautiful balloons - say "bye-bye" to all the beautiful balloons!

Let "s learn the colors song together - Let's sing a song of flowers together
Apple is red - red apple
Leaves are green - leaves are green
Lemon is yellow - yellow lemon
Sky is blue - the sky is blue
Carrot is orange - orange carrots
Berries are purple - purple berries
Flowers are pink - pink flowers
Night and day for black and white - Night and day for black and white
Rainbows are always bright - rainbows are always bright

What colors do you like? - What colors do you like?
I like blue sky - I love the blue sky
I like green grass - I love green grass
I like purple butterflies - I love purple butterflies
I like yellow daisies - I love yellow daisies
Pink and orange sunsets - pink-orange sunsets
I like white - snowy white - I love white - snow white
Black of the night - Black as night
I like the brown of the earth in the ground - I love brown like the earth
I like blueberry-pie - I love blueberry pie
Green cabbage and broccoli - green cabbage and broccoli
I like yellow corn - I love yellow grain
Orange carrots too - orange carrots too
White mashed potato - white mashed potatoes
And a brown gravy stew
I like red strawberries - I love red strawberries
Purple grapes - purple grapes
I like pink grapefruit - I love pink grapefruit

There are also a lot of interesting things in Russian-language videos, but keep in mind that if the child is not more than 3 years old, it is better for him to show only the English-language versions (those above). If he's older, it's up to you to decide. And if his age is approaching 8 years or more, then a video with Russian comments will be just right!

And here they are:

It's time to add to this riot of emotions and voiced cards in the form of a table (under it you will find a file for printing), which will help you repeat the colors and come up with different games with them.

The following game came to my mind: The kid chooses any card from your hands at random. When he sees a color, you are together or he himself must remember the word corresponding to the color, and then you go in search of an object of that color - at home, in the garden, on the street! When this stage is completed (several such sessions are required), you can do the opposite - show the baby an object and ask him to find a card with the appropriate color and pronounce it. Or you offer him two oral options, and he chooses.

You can invent games on the go - it's very easy and fun!

By the way, if you need a word with transcription, there is a service in the sidebar on the right that can provide it to you. Just enter the word and click "Transcribe"

And we continue:

	red
	green
	blue
	orange
	purple
	pink
	black
	white
	brown
	yellow

File for downloading and printing cards with colors and words in English

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