avoir le feu vert - to have the go-ahead/green light.manger du vert - to eat greens (vegetables).
une politique verte - a green/ecological policy.le fruit est encore vert - the fruit isn’t ripe yet.Here’s a short sampling of the most common uses: Vert - GreenĪs with English equivalent, vert gets laden with all sorts of different symbolism and can thus be of use in many situations. Un jaune d’œuf (literally, yellow of egg) is an egg yolk.Īs a noun, jaune is an offensive term for an Asian person as well as a scab, in the sense of somebody who goes to work during a strike. One of the most important uses of jaune is in Le Tour de France the leader in the race wears the maillot jaune, or yellow jersey. The lovely verb rougir means to turn red (in any sense), including to blush. être dans le rouge - to be in the red (accounting).Here are a few other quite easy parallels to English: People like me who are rather carefree oenophiles will simply order un verre de rouge (a glass of red) in any French bar, to indicate that we could care less if it is from Bourgogne, Bordeaux, or what have you. Rouge is the color of the communists and can work as both a noun to describe such a person or an adjective to describe a viewpoint. Red gets all kinds of uses and associations in English, so it shouldn’t surprise you that the same is true in French. What we call a yellow stoplight is seen as orange in France: feu orange. Note: orange is an invariable adjective, whereas orangé is not. Variants include orange brûlé (burnt orange) and the intentionally vaguer orangé (orangey). You can thus have jus d’orange (orange juice) at breakfast as well as marmelade d’orange (orange marmalade). This color, as in English, is the name of the fruit as well. Note that the pronunciation of rose contrasts with the name of the wine, vin rosé, for which one does pronounce the last letter.īe aware that rose as an adjective is also used to describe things that are erotic/sexual, so a téléphone rose is not a pink telephone, but rather a phone sex service. Rose as a color adjective in French means “pink,” not the warmer crimsony color we Anglophones tend to think of when we use “rose” as a color.Īs a noun, however, une rose denotes the same flower as in English.
Couleurs france pdf#
This blog post is available as a convenient and portable PDF that youĬlick here to get a copy. In this post, I’ll go over the words for colors in French, as well as the most common ways that you’ll likely encounter them in your kaleidoscopic French life. Learning colors in French and the words used to describe them will allow you to convey a number of other feelings and experiences, while discovering a bit more about French culture, too. Want to talk about the chromatic wonders that you see around you-in French? MaThe Colors in French with Examples, Expressions, and Audio Pronunciation
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