Colors and their names in Russian and English with a photo

What would have happened if there were no flowers in our life? How dull and boring seemed to the world, if every day before my eyes did not flash multicolored spots. As if it was not interesting to live in the world, one can only guess, because we have such an opportunity to enjoy a huge number of different 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 they are now a huge number. Where do they come from? Naturally, from nature, without it, we would not have such a huge number of colors. However, it is worth noting that there are colors that you simply can not find in nature, they are obtained either by mixing, or using a computer and modern programs.

The meaning of color in life

No matter how it may sound, the colors have a huge influence 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. In order to do this, it is not necessary to know the colors and their names, it is only necessary to understand that today it is better to wear something of a calmer color or vice versa.

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

But no matter how careful we are to the environment and shades, all colors and their names can not be remembered, since there are more than 15 thousand of them in the world! But, alas, the average person can only discern 150 colors, and this is not because he has vision problems, it is because his eyes are not adapted to the perception of 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 - basic. This means that every inhabitant of the planet knows these colors and their names, sees them daily several times. Among them are white, black and gray. In English they are written like white, black and gray. And each of them has a lot of additional meanings, for example, the adjective "black" can be used to describe something bad, gloomy, "gray" will help to say about a dull, cloudy day (gray day).

As for the word white, we are accustomed to using it as an adjective, but it can still be a verb that means "whiten", "make white".

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

Colors of rainbow

A rainbow is, perhaps, a whole storehouse of flowers and shades. We only think that there are seven of them, because in the places of transition of one color to another there is a new color. Without a doubt, the rainbow contains a large number of shades, only our vision is not so ideal to recognize them. We can see these subtle colors only with a strong increase in the rainbow. However, you can read all the 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. Also denoted and orange. Following the orange goes yellow - yellow, then - green, which sounds in English as green. Blue can be translated in different ways: either cyan, or simpler: sky blue (sky blue). Blue from the British almost does not differ from the blue, apparently, the sensitivity to colors and shades is slightly weak, so this color sounds like blue. The last color, purple, is called in English purple. The rainbow itself is a rainbow.

Additional colors

Additional can be called such shades, which we also use often, but still somewhat less than the base colors or the colors of the rainbow. Undoubtedly, all the colors of the world and their names in English can not be accommodated in one article, however you will find the most popular ones in it.

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

Gold is not just gold, but gold. This word can also be a noun, referring to gold in the meaning of wealth, nobility, value.

Chocolate - chocolate shade, chocolate. Slightly lighter than this brown, but non-professional people usually call the chocolate color just brown. Only the last one in English is written differently - 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 one is already known to us blue.

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

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

The beautiful word emerald means no less beautiful emerald color.

What should I do when I need to describe a two-color object?

No matter how advanced a person is, no matter how sophisticated modern computer programs are, people will never know all the colors of the world and their names. Photos from the festival of colors - this is probably the brightest pictures in the world. They mix a variety of colors, it turns yellow-green, white-blue, red-orange, etc.

And how to name two-color objects in English? As it turned out, everything is much easier if compared with the Russian. To say "yellow-green" you just need to take the naming of both colors and write through the hyphen, you will get green-yellow. With black and white the same thing, only between two words you need to insert a preposition "and", it turns black-and-white. We inserted the preposition because it is a stable expression.

Colors with beautiful names

All the colors of the world and their names in Russian, we can still find out or guess, but in English there are so many colors with extremely unusual or simply beautiful names.

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

Violet-eggplant - eggplant color, closer to pink.

Pale magenta - purple color.

Burgundy translates as "Burgundy", although in fact it is brownish-red.

Vermilion is a purple color, more simply, red.

Amber is an amber color.

Turquoise - turquoise, mint color.