🇬🇧 Listen & Repeat (English)
adjective
The colour of the sky on a clear day and of deep water.
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).
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."
🇿🇦 "Die vrou het blou hare."
"My credit card is blue."
🇿🇦 "My kredietkaart is blou."
Practice Quiz
1. The sky is ___.
2. 'Out of the blue' means: