Clothing & Colors
വസ്ത്രങ്ങളും നിറങ്ങളും
Colors in German are adjectives, so they lean on the adjective-ending logic you'll formalize later — but as vocabulary, the colors and clothing items themselves are simple, high-frequency words worth learning now.
Grammar Comparison
വ്യാകരണ താരതമ്യം
Colors are adjectives — expect them to take endings later
ein rotes Hemd (a red shirt) — rot takes the -es ending, exactly like gut in ein gutes Kind
ചുവന്ന ഷർട്ട് (a red shirt) — ചുവപ്പ് never changes
Color words (rot, blau, grün) behave exactly like any other German adjective — invariant in Malayalam, but taking an ending in German that depends on the noun's gender and case, following the same der/ein pattern you'll formalize in A2's adjective-endings lesson. For now, just learn the base color words; the endings will click once you've built that lesson's full pattern.
Vocabulary
വാക്കുകൾ
- Malayalam
- ചുവപ്പ്, നീല, പച്ച, മഞ്ഞchuvappu, neela, pacha, manja
- English
- red, blue, green, yellow
- Malayalam
- കറുപ്പ്, വെള്ളkaruppu, vella
- English
- black, white
- Malayalam
- ഷർട്ട്shirt
- English
- shirt
- Malayalam
- പാന്റ്സ്pants
- English
- pants
- Malayalam
- ചെരുപ്പ്cheruppu
- English
- shoes