![]() ![]() If you’re telling someone “I lost my purple umbrella” ( Ich habe meinen lila Regenschirm verloren), it immediately evokes a clear picture for them, and they will be able to help you find it. When you’re telling someone you lost an umbrella, it’s a broad statement. So there is no better way of describing things. Why learn all the colors in German? Make precise descriptionsīeing precise is imperative to communicating effectively and colors are often the most obvious attributes. Download our free paper chatterbox to help you learn German colors in no time! So we’ve collected all the colors of the rainbow for you, plus some extra pretty shades in between. When learning and speaking German, it will make your conversations more vivid, more graphic and just more colorful, as adding colors to the things you say is like painting pictures while you speak. Getting to know the colors is an interesting and fun part of language learning. ![]() Yet other languages have an entirely different organizing system, for example, mapping brown, red, and green as one. In some languages, gray, black and blue are regarded as the same color - so there’s only one word for them, while in other languages, light blue and dark blue are seen as two distinguished colors. ![]() Did you know that other languages don’t always differentiate colors in the same way that English does? If you want to know just how dark my family's hair is, here are some pictures of my mother with her siblings, they're not pure German they only get German from their father's side, their mother is Irish and Belgian.Colors beautifully demonstrate how speakers of different languages often see the world through different lenses. In the second photo, he is 6 years old, he is the childe in the middle and it looks like his hair was very pale blonde like white blonde, unless that picture of him is with no hair. What's your opinion what color does his hair look to you? I envision it being a medium brown or reddish color just going by the photo. While you can't tell exactly what color hair is in black and white photos, his hair does not look that dark to me,I don't see how it could be black. Here is a picture of my great grandfather. My family is of German descent in my mother's side (though not 100%), but my mom had 5 other siblings they all had dark hair, and so do my cousins from her side of the family. And then there is always the stereotype of Germans being blonde. It seems like blonde or golden is the default hair color and that dark hair is some kind of genetic mutation all I see is golden shades of hair here in MN I'm not kidding. Let me tell you, I live in Minnesota where the majority of the people are of German descent, the Germany of the U.S and I see blonde hair everywhere, most people have blonde or brown hair like Astrid Runa and dark hair is kind of rare and I'm thinking this has much to do with people being of German ancestry yet at the same time I have an ancestor who was German and had dark hair. People have told me that there are Germans with dark hair, but if that is true, then why is it that I don't I see it very often? Is it recessive? If so, I thought dark hair was dominant. Does "dark" have a specific meaning or is it just an arbitrary term that could mean anything from the blackest of black to just darker shades of blonde? Also note that he was 30 years old at the time, is it possible that hair darkens with age especially in males? The other thing that is interesting is, what the registrar meant when he wrote "dark" next to "color of hair". The reason I am asking this is because my great grandfather (my mothers paternal grandfather) was of pure German extraction, yet it said on his WWI draft registration card (you can find those on if you know what I'm talking about) that his hair color was dark and I'm curious if this is an anamoly of if it is not uncommon for German men to have dark hair. I'd like to really find out for sure if Germans people can have dark hair, of course they can I'm sure there are some dark haired Germans but is it common or is it scarce? ![]()
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