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die Farbethe colourplur. die Farben – the colours
rotred
rosa, pinkpink
purpurmagenta
gelbyellow
orangeorangefrench word
grüngreen
blaublue
hellblaulight blue
dunkelblaudark blue
türkistorquise
lilapurple
violettviolet
weißwhite
graugrey
silbersilver
schwarzblack
braunbrown
beigebeigefrench word
goldfarbengold
kupferfarbencopper
lila blassblaupurple pale blueoften as a joke

All these colour names are adjectives, e.g. das rote Buch – the red book. If a colour name is used as a noun (e.g. das Blau des Himmels – the blue of the sky) then it is a neuter noun using the article „das”. In German, all nouns are written with a capital initial letter.

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