Von leuchtend roter Farbe.
Of a bright red colour.
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Sie trug einen scharlachroten Mantel. — She wore a scarlet coat.
Die Ahornblätter wurden über Nacht scharlachrot. — The maple leaves turned scarlet overnight.
Ist das scharlachrote Band nicht zu grell? — Isn't that scarlet ribbon too bright?
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Download the app for free German vocabulary testScharlachrot is a compound of Scharlach and rot, and Scharlach on its own is the disease — scarlet fever. So German has the same pairing English has, colour and illness under one root, but keeps them apart by adding rot when the colour is meant.
The word is literary in German too; in speech people say knallrot or leuchtend rot. And Hawthorne's novel is Der scharlachrote Buchstabe, which is how most Germans first meet the word.
Scharlach scarlet fever
On its own the disease, never the colour. The colour needs rot attached.
knallrot bright red
What Germans actually say. Scharlachrot belongs to writing.
purpurrot crimson
Darker and towards blue, the wine colour — as with French cramoisi.
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