The German word for black is
schwarz
German Definition
black | |
Adjektiv: | |
[1] Farbe: schwarz | |
[1] I saw a black cat. | |
Ich sah eine schwarze Katze. | |
Substantiv: | |
[1] Schwarz | |
[2] Mensch mit schwarzer Hautfarbe (oft in Großschreibung: Black); Plural: kollektiv die Schwarzen | |
[1] The color of the shoes was a deep black. | |
Die Farbe seiner Schuhe war ein tiefes Schwarz. | |
[2] History of the blacks in Canada | |
Verb: | |
[1] schwarz färben; schwärzen | |
[1] The chemicals blacked the metal. | |
Die Chemikalien schwärzten das Metall. |
Translations for black and their definitions
Schwarz | ||
n. black (colour) | ||
n. (heraldry) sable; black in heraldry | ||
Proper noun. surname, common, from=nicknames, varform=Schwartz | ||
adj. black, reflecting little or no light | ||
adj. (figurative) illegal | ||
adj. black, having a high amount of melanin in an organ, e.g. the skin | ||
adj. (politics, Germany, relational) of the CDU or CSU (large center-right Christian Democratic parties, whose associated colour is black) | ||
adj. (of coffee) without milk | ||
adj. (trick-taking card games) not having won any trick (or only tricks with zero points) | ||
adj. (relational) Goth (of Goth music or culture, called schwarze Szene in German) |
Schwarze | ||
n. female equivalent of Schwarzer: black woman | ||
n. plural of Schwarzer | ||
n. nominative singular of Schwarzer | ||
adj. form of schwarz |
Schwarz | ||
n. black (colour) | ||
n. (heraldry) sable; black in heraldry | ||
Proper noun. surname, common, from=nicknames, varform=Schwartz | ||
adj. black, reflecting little or no light | ||
adj. (figurative) illegal | ||
adj. black, having a high amount of melanin in an organ, e.g. the skin | ||
adj. (politics, Germany, relational) of the CDU or CSU (large center-right Christian Democratic parties, whose associated colour is black) | ||
adj. (of coffee) without milk | ||
adj. (trick-taking card games) not having won any trick (or only tricks with zero points) | ||
adj. (relational) Goth (of Goth music or culture, called schwarze Szene in German) |
Schwärze | ||
n-f. blackness, darkness, swarthiness | ||
n-f. blacking | ||
n-f. blackening | ||
n-f. black | ||
n-f. printer's ink | ||
n-f. baseness, wickedness, atrociousness, heinousness | ||
v. first-person singular present of schwärzen | ||
v. first-person singular subjunctive of schwärzen | ||
v. third-person singular subjunctive of schwärzen | ||
v. singular imperative of schwärzen |
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