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bleu(e)
A1 adjective Couleurs
🇬🇧 English: blue
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Définition

🇫🇷 French (EU)
adjective

bleu(e)

Definition

🇬🇧 English

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

🇬🇧 English

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.

Exemples

La femme a les cheveux bleus.

"La femme a les cheveux bleus."

🇬🇧 "The woman has blue hair."

Ma carte de crédit est bleue.

"Ma carte de crédit est bleue."

🇬🇧 "My credit card is blue."

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