Уро́к 5
5.3 Language and Speech – Цвета́ (Colors)
[AUDIO]
Colors!
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- кра́сный
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- ора́нжевый
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- жёлтый
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- зелёный
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- голубо́й
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- си́ний
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- фиоле́товый
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- ро́зовый
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- се́рый
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- чёрный
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- кори́чневый
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- бе́лый
A note about BLUE
The word голубой is often described as ‘light blue’ and the word ‘синий’ is typically ‘dark blue’. So, why am I teaching you two shades of blue when we’re not doing the same for green or red? It’s NOT just so I can squeeze in a soft stem adjective with синий, I swear!
In general the distinction is light blue / dark blue.
That said, English & Russian just don’t line up in where they draw the line between light and dark.
It saddens me to admit that I STILL am not a fluent ‘blue’ user in Russian.
The following are images searches from Flickr.
голубо́й
си́ний
Typically, the неба ‘sky’ is голубой and море (a Russian sea, anyway) is синий. That’s about as far as I go….
