Without color, the world would be, well, black-and-white. Color plays a vital role in our everyday life. Colors can calm us down, excite us, show others what political parties we support and reveal the beauty of nature. If you’re traveling in Poland and don’t know the colors in Polish, then you go straight back to black-and-white.
This isn’t to say you’ll actually stop seeing colors if you can’t name them, but being able to point out colors is very useful in another language. You might not know the word for everything that you’re looking at, but calling something by its color is a good way to distinguish it from everything else. It’s also a great place to start when you want to learn the Polish language. Here’s a quick guide to the basic colors in Polish to get you started!
Note on usage: the color will go before the noun in a sentence. So if you want to say red dress it will be czerwona sukienka in Polish. Also, if you want to say a color is dark or light, you’ll often attach the words for “dark” and “light,” like in the “light blue” and “dark blue” examples below.
The Colors In Polish
color — kolor
red — czerwony
orange — pomarańczowy
yellow — żółty
green — zielony
blue — niebieski
light blue — jasnoniebieski
dark blue — ciemnoniebieski
purple — fioletowy
pink — różowy
brown — brązowy
black — czarny
white — biały
light — jasny
dark — ciemny