Russian/Vocabulary/Colors

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Colors

цвет	noun	Color	Tsvyet
Plural is цвета (colors). Note that цветы means flowers and is a plural form of цветок.
Белый	adjective	White	Byelyj
Russia is too cold to take off your shirt, so Russians have white bellies.
Чёрный	adjective	Black	Chyornyj
Picture scrubbing a floor on your knees. This chore will make your knees black.
Красный	adjective	Red	Krasnyj
When Russians sit with crossed knees you can see their red socks.
Розовый	adjective	Pink	Rozovyj
Russians love roses and love to call people so zovy your roses.
Синий	adjective	Dark Blue	Seeneej
You never see Russians' knees because they wear dark blue pants.
Голубой	adjective	Light Blue	Golooboy
Голубой also means "gay." Be careful what you describe as golooboy!
Серый	adjective	Gray	Syehryj
Gray is a serious color.
Жёлтый	adjective	Yellow	Zholtyj
In Russia, caffeinated soft drinks always come in yellow cans, and they have twice the caffeine of American soft drinks, so anything you drink out of a yellow can will make you jolty.
Зелёный	adjective	Green	zyehlyonyj
Russians love green jello. But they don't call it "jello," rather they call it "zello," at least when it's green.
оранжевый	adjective	Orange	oránzheviy
Коричневый	adjective	Brown	koreechnyehvyj
Corey reaches no levee next to the brown Mississippi River.

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