Von einer Farbe zwischen Rot und Blau.
Of a colour between red and blue.
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Sie strich die Tür lila. — She painted the door purple.
Ihr lila Schal passte zu den Blumen auf dem Tisch. — Her purple scarf matched the flowers on the table.
Warum ist der Bildschirm lila? — Why is the screen purple?
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Download the app for free German vocabulary testGerman has two words where English has one, and the line between them is a matter of taste rather than of physics. Lila is the everyday purple; violett is the more precise and slightly more formal one, closer to what a paint chart means by violet.
And lila is one of the very few German adjectives that does not decline: ein lila Kleid, not ein lilanes Kleid — though spoken German is starting to invent lilane anyway. Purpur exists too, and like French pourpre it means a dark red, not purple at all.
violett violet
More precise and a shade more formal. Where English has one word, German chooses between two.
Purpur purple — the imperial dye
A dark red, like French pourpre and Spanish púrpura. It is not what English calls purple.
rosa pink
The other famous indeclinable colour, and it behaves exactly like lila.
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