🇬🇧 English from 🇿🇦 Afrikaans Alle Woorde
blue
/bluː/
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🇿🇦 Afrikaans: blou
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Definition

🇬🇧 English
adjective

The colour of the sky on a clear day and of deep water.

Grammar Notes

🇬🇧 English

Adjective. Used before nouns: 'a blue sky', or after verbs: 'the sky is blue'. Common collocations: blue eyes, sky blue, navy blue, blue jeans, out of the blue (meaning unexpected).

Cultural Notes

Blue is one of the most popular colours in the world and is often associated with trust, calm, and sadness. In English, feeling 'blue' means feeling sad. 'Blueprint' originally referred to a type of technical drawing.

Example Sentences

The woman has blue hair.

"The woman has blue hair."

🇿🇦 "Die vrou het blou hare."

My credit card is blue.

"My credit card is blue."

🇿🇦 "My kredietkaart is blou."

Practice Quiz

1. The sky is ___.
2. 'Out of the blue' means:

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