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The German word for black is
schwarz





black

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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