Colours in Luxembourgish: Beginner's Guide
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to say colours in Luxembourgish and how to use them in simple everyday sentences.
This lesson will be very colorful. Dat gëtt eng faarweg Lektioun. The Luxembourgish word for colorful is faarweg. As you can hear faarweg is not pronounced as it is spelled.
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I recommend that you listen to the podcast version of this lesson while reading the transcript here on the blog. This way, you can see the Luxembourgish words as you hear them and practise your pronunciation at the same time.
Listen to me first, then repeat after me. The focus of this lesson is on your pronunciation, so take your time and repeat each word and sentence as often as you need.
- Mäi Prabbeli ass faarweg. – My umbrella is colorful.
How to Say “Colour” in Luxembourgish
But let’s start with the word for “the color” which is
d’ Faarf (f)
as it is a feminine noun you would say for “a color” eng Faarf.
The plural of Faarf is
d’ Faarwen
Basic Colours in Luxembourgish
giel – yellow
To ask someone “What color is ….?” you would say in Luxembourgish: Wat fir eng Faarf huet …..?, zum Beispill: Wat fir eng Faarf huet d’Zitroun?
- D’Zitroun ass giel. – The lemon is yellow.
- Wat ass nach giel? – What else is yellow? D’Sonn ass giel. – The sun is yellow.
wäiss – white
- Schnéi ass wäiss. – Snow is white.
- Wat ass nach wäiss? – What else is white? Meng Taass ass wäiss. – My cup is white.
schwaarz – black
- Meng Kaz ass schwaarz oder pechschwaarz. – My cat is black or pitch-black
- E Prabbeli ass dacks schwaarz. – An umbrella is often black.
blo – blue
- Den Himmel ass blo. – The sky is blue.
- Ech hunn nëmme blo Boxen. – I’ve only blue pants.
gréng – green
- Beem si gréng. – Trees are green.
- Wat fir eng Faarf huet däi Mantel? En ass gréng.– What color is your coat? It is green.
Instead of Wat fir eng …? you can say Wéi eng …? It doesn’t matter.
- Wéi eng Faarf huet däi Mantel? En ass gréng.– What color is your coat? It is green.
rout – red
- Kiischte si rout. – Cherries are red.
- Wéi eng Faarf huet deng nei Jupe? Se ass rout. – What color is your new skirt. It is red.
rosa – light pink
- Meng Liblingsfaarf ass rosa. – My favorite color is pink.
- Net jiddereen huet d’Faarf rosa gär. – Not everyone likes the color pink.
mof – purple
- Verschidde Blumme si mof. – Some flowers are purple.
- Wéi eng Faarf huet däi Kleed? Et ass mof.– What color is your dress? It is purple
I have talked about these small words en – se -et in this lesson.
orange – orange
- Muerte sinn orange. – Carrots are orange.
- Wat ass nach orange? Ma, eng Orange natierlech! – What else is orange? Well, an orange of course!
gro – grey
- Eisen Teppech ass gro. – Our carpet is grey.
- Hatt huet elo gro Hoer. – She has grey hair now .
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brong – brown
- All meng Posche si brong. – All my handbags are brown.
- Mäin Hond ass brong – My dog is brown.
beige – beige
- Wat ass deng Liblingsfaarf? Beige! – What is your favorite color?
- Solle mir d’Mauer beige oder gro usträichen?. – Should we paint the wall beige or grey?
How to Say Light and Dark Colours in Luxembourgish
If you want to say say light blue or light green you can say:
hellblo / hellgréng
If you want to say say dark blue or dark gréng you can say:
donkellblo / donkelgréng
This is also useful vocabulary for describing a picture, which is an important skill if you are preparing for the Sproochentest.
Useful Luxembourgish Expressions with Colours:
Colours also appear in some interesting Luxembourgish expressions. Here are a few useful ones:
- Et ass mir schwaarz virun den Ae ginn. – I became dizzy.
- Ech hu kee Rouden a kee Wäisse méi. – I haven’t got anymore money.
- Mäi Papp huet sech gréng a giel geiergert.- My dad got very angry.
- Dat ass net dat Gielt vum Ee. – That’ doesn’t suit / that’s not optimal.
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