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Color Meanings in German
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Farbenfroh: Colorful Expressions
Color Meanings in German
German Color Symbolism and Expressions
Every language has its own colorful expressions and symbolism, including German. But here we're talking about colorful (bunt, farbenfroh) in a literal sense: expressions that contain grün, rot, blau, schwarz, braun, and other colors.
In English we can "feel blue," "be yellow," or "see red." In German these colors may or may not have the same meaning. In an earlier feature, Idioms: Talk like a German, I mentioned several blau idioms, because "blau" can have numerous meanings in German, including "drunk" or "black" (as in "black eye"). You may also want to look at our German Colors (Farben) page and its complete color chart.
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Erstellt: 2012-06