Blue or blue: how to use the word blue correctly
Many people have found themselves wondering if they are making a mistake when they use the word “blue” to refer to both blue and cyan in English. Dzen I sorted out this confusion.
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It's all about the difference between the number of so-called basic colors in Russian and in English. In English there are 11 basic palette colors: white - white, black - black, red - red, yellow - yellow, orange - orange, green - green, purple - violet, pink - pink, brown - brown, gray - gray and blue - blue.
In the Russian language, the palette has one more basic color, and this 12th color is blue.
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It turns out that in Russian blue and blue are different colors. But according to the English-Russian online dictionary “Cambridge Dictionary”, the translation of the word “blue” is “blue, blue”.
How to say it correctly
It turns out that in English these colors are interchangeable. This is actually why everyone gets confused in their choice when constructing sentences in English and when translating into Russian.
How can we explain to our interlocutor that we mean the color blue, and not blue, and vice versa? Use the compound adjective "dark blue" for the color blue, and use "light blue" for the color light blue.
A couple more touches
Important note: if a compound adjective comes before a noun, the adjective must be written with a hyphen:
a light-blue hat - a blue hat.
An interesting fact about the word “blue”: sometimes the word “blue” is translated as “sad, dreary.” It was from this word that the genre of African-American jazz music, “blues,” was formed.
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