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The colors of Greece

From white houses and a blue sea to green olive groves: learn to recognize and name colors. Το χρώμα means "soaked' colour; τα χρώματα are decorated colours.

Below is the neuter form or an immutable color word. The Dutch sound aid is an approach; capital letters indicate the stress. 'gh' is a soft, tuning g; 'zj' sounds like in 'journaal'. The listen buttons use your chosen Greek voice.

A color adapts to the word

Many colors change with the grammatical gender of the noun. This table shows the singularity in the nominative. In other names and in plural the outputs can change further.

Ο κόκκινος τοίχος The red wall; η κόκκινη πόρτα The red door; το κόκκινο σπίτι - The red house.

Unchangeable colors: μπλε, ροζ, μοβ, γκρι, καφέ, μπεζ and τιρκουάζ keep the same spelling in these usual forms. For orange you can keep the unchangeable πορτοκαλί use. In addition, the bent sequence exists πορτοκαλής, πορτοκαλιά, πορτοκαλί.

Light, dark and the color of the sea

Ανοιχτό μπλε means light blue, σκούρο μπλε donkerblauw. Γαλάζιο is a word of your own for light or sky blue. In white wine you usually say λευκό κρασί; with red wine you can κόκκινο κρασί zeggen. Λευκό is another word for white.

Colors in a conversation

• Ο ουρανός είναι γαλάζιος.
  The sky is light blue. Listen 🔊
• Η θάλασσα είναι μπλε.
  The sea is blue. Listen 🔊
• Το σπίτι είναι άσπρο.
  The house is white. Listen 🔊
• Θέλω ένα κόκκινο κρασί.
  I want a red wine. Listen 🔊
• Μου αρέσει το πράσινο.
  I like green. Listen 🔊
• Τι χρώμα είναι;
  What color is it? Listen 🔊
• Έχετε αυτό σε μπλε;
  Do you have this in blue? Listen 🔊

Naslag: Dictionary of the Centre for the Greek Language, including the lemma. γαλάζιος and πορτοκαλής. Sound help editorially drafted; no exact phonetic transcription.