colour

n. färg, färgskugga, färgton, nyans (alternativ stavning color)

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v. färga, lägga till färg, förvanska, förfalska (växla stavning för color färg)

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1. noun

1) (a quality which objects have, and which can be seen, only when light falls on them: What colour is her dress?; Red, blue and yellow are colours.) färg, kulör

2) (paint(s): That artist uses water-colours.) färg

3) ((a) skin-colour varying with race: people of all colours.) hudfärg

4) (vividness; interest: There's plenty of colour in his stories.) färg, liv

2. adjective

((of photographs etc) in colour, not black and white: colour film; colour television.) färg-

3. verb

(to put colour on; to paint: They coloured the walls yellow.) färga, färglägga

- coloured

4. noun

((sometimes used impolitely) a dark-skinned person especially of Negro origin.) färgad

- colourful

- colouring
- colourless
- colours
- colour-blind
- colour scheme
- off-colour
- colour in
- show oneself in one's true colours
- with flying colours